WP: Iraqi Cub Reporter Was Among Victims Of Contentious Raid

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401472.html

Iraqi Cub Reporter Was Among Victims Of Contentious Raid
U.S. Said 16 Insurgents Were Killed

By Jonathan Finer and Naseer Nouri
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, April 15, 2006; Page A12

BAGHDAD, April 14 -- An unarmed Iraqi journalist was among those killed during a controversial military raid late last month in northern Baghdad, according to interviews with his editors, a reporter who was with him when he died and other witnesses.

Kamal Manahi Anbar, 28, was enrolled in a training program of the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, which runs courses for local news media in several countries. An editor who worked with Anbar at the institute wrote about the killing on its Web site this month.

On March 26, Anbar went to the al-Moustafa Husseiniya, a political and religious complex in the capital's Shaab neighborhood, to conduct interviews for a story about Shiite Muslims displaced from their homes by violence, said Aos Tammimi, a friend and reporter for U.S.-sponsored Radio Sawa who accompanied him.

Armored Humvees arrived, and a firefight broke out. Anbar hid for a while in an adjacent house, according to Sadoun Husseini, 56, who owns the house and watched the scene unfold. When Anbar later tried to flee, he was shot through the right cheekbone. Tammimi found his body.

[leftchick]

1. just one example of the hundreds of thousands DEAD thanks to the US

this is just incredibly sad.... :cry:

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Anbar and Tammimi had arrived moments before the shooting began and were standing in the mosque's courtyard when the Humvees arrived, said Tammimi, by telephone from Syria, where he said he had gone to try to move beyond his friend's death.

With several worshipers from the mosque, Anbar jumped a gate and entered Husseini's house next door, where Husseini's wife and children were hiding from the firefight.

The men wrote their names and phone numbers on a piece of paper and asked Husseini's wife to call their families if anything happened to them, Husseini said. When the shooting seemed to slow, Anbar left the house and was dashing across the street to leave the neighborhood when the bullet cut him down. It was unclear whether he was shot deliberately or killed in the crossfire.

Members of Anbar's family, who did not know he was training to become a journalist, said they came to retrieve his body and bring it home before transporting it to the Shiite holy city of Najaf to be buried. He left a wife who is three months pregnant.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. One way to get good news out. Shoot the reporters.

If Humvees were involved, that means US troops were there.

[leftchick]

3. according to the official US report

the US "supported" an Iraqi operation! Yeppers, whatever! :eyes:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. Some support. "Hey, shoot the guy with that dangerous notepad! Quick,

before he quotes someone!"

My stomach turns with every new story. And now, the local rag mentioned that war is breaking out outside of Kabul again.