Did I hear correctly on CBS just now - one of our soldiers shot...

[NRaleighLiberal]

a journalist???

[ewagner]

1. Yep.. a cameraman, I think

the reporter is being held....there's another thread here somewhere.

[fooj]

2. WTF is going on over there?

Geez.............:cry:

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Oh gosh

:( Horrible. Do they know anything yet about why this person was killed?

[serryjw]

3. More journalists lost in Iraq

than Vietnam

[mike_c]

4. Reuters sound man killed, camera man wounded, held in custody...

Evidently both were shot by a U.S. sniper. Last I heard his status was still unclear.

[leftchick]

5. The car he was shot in....

The journalists are targeted by US troops.....



The car of Reuters soundman Waleed Khaled is seen after he was shot dead in Baghdad's Al Ghazalea district August 28, 2005. Khaleed, a Reuters Television soundman, was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday and a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by U.S. soldiers. Iraqi police said they had been shot by U.S. forces. A U.S. military spokesman said the incident was being investigated. (Mohammad Ameen/Reuters)

[FreedomAngel82]

11. I remember

watching "Control Room" and at the very beginning someone in Al-Jazzera was telling how they had to tell the Pentagon the exact points of where they were going to be at. They couldn't go there until they told where they were going to be.

[SofaKingLiberal]

6. Didn't they gun down a media crew a while back after one

of them was released from being a hostage?

[Fleshdancer]

12. yep. It was an Italian journalist. She was saved when....

the hostage negotiate who got her out of hostage shielded her with his own body. Italy didn't buy our story of how it went down.

edit: spelling error

[FreedomAngel82]

13. That was an Italian journalist

Apparently the people who were holding her warned her as well according to her. They were going to investigate the car that was "lost" but I don't know whatever happened to that case. Does anybody else?

[wli]

7. can't let real news get out, assassination orders for journalists n/t

[Junkdrawer]

8. Clearly, the car was trying to run a checkpoint...

:sarcasm:

[Postman]

10. here's a link to the story..

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050828/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestmedialead

[Skip Intro]

14. we bombed buildings housing journalists during/just after Shock and Awe

didn't we?

a hotel, I think, more than once?

[G_j]

15. Dead Messengers: How the U.S. Military Threatens Journalists

Dead Messengers:
How the U.S. Military Threatens Journalists

By Steve Weissman
t r u t h o u t | Investigation


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022405A.shtml

This is part one of a four-part series.

Part II | Army Failed to Probe Its Attack on Palestine Hotel
Part III | Targeting the Media the American Way
Part IV | But What About Al-Jazeera?
Exhibit A | Reporters Without Borders: Two Murders and a Lie


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Part I: Hearing What Eason Jordan Said

Thursday 24 February 2005

Do American soldiers purposely kill journalists, as CNN's Eason Jordan supposedly said? Or, could the problem be even worse
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