Iraqi Journalists Rebuke Powell Over Killings (Reuters)

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Iraqi Journalists Rebuke Powell Over Killings
Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:01 AM ET

By Arshad Mohammed

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi journalists gave Secretary of State Colin Powell a hostile reception in Baghdad on Friday, walking out of his news conference in protest at the killing of two of their colleagues by U.S. troops.


About 30 Arab journalists quit the hall in anger at Thursday's shooting of two Iraqis who worked for the Dubai-based satellite television channel Al Arabiya.

"We declare our condemnation of the incident which led to the killing of the two journalists...at the hands of the American forces," said Najim al-Rubaie of Iraq's Addustour daily as Powell and Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer looked on.

Al Arabiya employees say U.S. soldiers fired on a car carrying an Arabiya crew on Thursday evening after another car ran through a checkpoint. Cameraman Ali Abdelaziz was killed and correspondent Ali al-Khatib died in hospital on Friday morning.

After the walkout, Powell said he regretted the deaths of the journalists, but was sure troops would not have killed them on purpose.





Iraqi and Arab journalists walk out of a Baghdad news conference, given by Secretary of State Colin Powell and U.S. civil administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer (at rear), in protest at lack of security and the killing of two Iraqi journalists by U.S. troops, March 19, 2004 Employees of Dubai-based satellite television channel Al Arabiya say U.S. soldiers opened fire on a car carrying an Arabiya crew on Thursday evening after another car ran through a checkpoint. Cameraman Ali Abdelaziz was killed and correspondent Ali al-Khatib died in hospital on Friday morning. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

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