> Ken Brown[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This has now happened - Terry Lloyd one, of Britain's better-known > reporters, seems to have been killed by US marines. According to the > cameraman he was picked up by Iraqi ambulance, so its a fair bet they > weren't embedded in the COW (thanks for the acronym, Tim) > > http://www.itv.com/news/236548.html > > Ken Brown wrote: [...] > > > > Kate Adie's broadcast (which I heard on the BBC) was in the context of a > > discussion of "non-embedded" reporters. She claimed that all the best > > news from Gulf War 2 had been from people who weren't bedding with the > > military. The ones who are being threatened are the ones with the > > temerity to travel independently rather than under military orders. > Let's not mix apples and oranges. Kate Adie's report concerned the possibility that air-launched anti-radiation missiles might be directed against radar-band transmitters in enemy territory, without first checking to see if they were actually reporter's microwave satellite uplinks.
Terry Lloyd was in a battle zone, on the Iraqi side. I kind of doubt if he was wearing hunter orange, or a big flashing neon sign saying "Western Journalist: Don't shoot me." Without commenting on the legitimacy of the US invasion, it looks to me like Mr Lloyd took a calculated risk to get the news from from the Iraqi side of the front lines, and tragically lost. Peter Trei
