Don't forget about the consistent accidental bombing of Al Jazeera offices.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:03:39AM -0700, Devine, James wrote: > [After hearing about this story on US NPR and not seeing it in the L.A. > TIMES, I googled for it. It's amazing how many _different_ stories come > up if you google "Iraqi journalists shot US troops."] > > Posted on Tue, Apr. 20, 2004 > U.S. troops kill two Iraqi television employees > ASSOCIATED PRESS > > BAGHDAD - U.S. troops shot to death two employees of U.S.-funded > television station Al-Iraqiya on Monday and wounded a third in the > central city of Samara, the station said. > > Correspondent Asaad Kadhim and driver Hussein Saleh were killed. > Cameraman Bassem Kamel was wounded "after American forces opened fire on > them while they were performing their duty," the station announced. > > The U.S. military had no immediate comment. > > Thamir Ibrahim, an Al-Iraqiya editor, told The Associated Press he had > no details on how the shooting occurred. But "it was on the road leading > to the city of Samara. Before they reached it, they were fired upon." > > They were taken to a Samara hospital, he said. "We wanted to go (to > them) now, but the road is closed, so we will go tomorrow." > > On March 18, U.S. troops shot dead correspondent Ali al-Khatib and > cameraman Ali Abdel-Aziz of the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news station. > > Al-Khatib and Abdel-Aziz were shot near a U.S. military checkpoint while > covering the aftermath of a rocket attack on the Burj al-Hayat hotel in > Baghdad. > > With the deaths of the two men, at least 24 Iraqi and foreign > journalists and media workers have been killed during the Iraq war and > its aftermath, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists Web > site. > > Al-Iraqiya began broadcasting on May 13, set up under a Defense > Department contract. The Iraq Media Network, which runs Al-Iraqiya and > two Baghdad radio station, was conceived during the State Department's > war preparations. > > The TV station gets exclusive interviews with coalition leaders and > streams live broadcasts of speeches by L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. > official in Iraq. But most Iraqis continue to get their news from Arab > satellite stations based abroad, like Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya. > > Among the journalists who have been killed during the Iraq conflict is > Reuters cameraman, Mazen Dana, shot by U.S. troops in August. The > military ruled that the soldiers acted in accordance with ruled of > engagement because they believed his camera was a rocket launcher, a > conclusion Reuters disputed. > > Another Reuters cameraman, Taras Protsyuk, and Spanish Telecinco > cameraman Jose Couso were killed on April 8, 2003, when a U.S. tank > fired at the Palestine Hotel where they were staying. > > The men worked at station Al-Iraqiya, which is funded by the Pentagon. > > ------------------------ > Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
