Iraq: Eyewitness says US helicopter attack killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd

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Iraq: Eyewitness says US helicopter attack killed ITN reporter Terry Lloyd
By Chris Marsden
11 September 2003

Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper has run an exclusive interview with an Iraqi businessman who claims he saw ITN reporter Terry Lloyd shot dead during a criminal attack by a US helicopter gunship on a civilian ambulance.

Lloyd was covering the Iraq war as a non-embedded journalist when he was killed on March 22 on the southern Iraq warfront.

At the time, Lloyd’s death caused outrage, as it was believed he had died as a result of US troops opening fire on Iraqi soldiers who appeared to be surrendering.

One of Lloyd’s TV news crew, cameraman Daniel Demoustier, said they had been approached by two cars carrying Iraqi soldiers who seemed to want to surrender. But allied tanks had started heavy firing directly at them and the ITN team’s car, clearly marked as a reporting vehicle, burst into flames. The Iraqis were all killed.

Demoustier, who was driving with Lloyd in the passenger seat, said at the time, “After we were hit I crouched under the steering wheel, pressing the accelerator to the floor. I looked up just before we crashed, the door was open and Terry was gone.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/itn-s11.shtml

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1. I think that this is a dupe, but ITN have already rejected this claim

"ITN has rubbished an Iraqi businessman's claim that veteran correspondent Terry Lloyd was only slight injured by the "friendly fire" that was believed to have killed him in the Iraq war.

It has dismissed claims that he died from an attack from a US helicopter hours later when he was being transported to hospital by an Iraqi businessman who stumbled across Lloyd and his burned out jeep."

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1039341,00.html

"The Daily Mirror has hit back at ITN's claims its front-page story about the circumstances surrounding the death of ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in Iraq contained no significant revelations.

ITN has privately admitted some of the "new" revelations in the Mirror's report were correct but said, it as far as it was concerned, Lloyd was fatally injured when caught in crossfire between US and Iraqi troops and was not killed hours later by fire from US helicopter gunship."

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1039418,00.html