US strike kills TV reporter during live broadcast

BurtWorm

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Mon Sep-13-04 12:46 PM
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US strike kills TV reporter during live broadcast

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/09/13/wirq13.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/09/13/ixportaltop.html

TV reporter killed by US fire during live Baghdad broadcast
By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad
(Filed: 13/09/2004)

A television journalist was shot dead as he made a live broadcast from Baghdad yesterday when United States helicopters fired on a crowd that had gathered round the burning wreckage of an American armoured vehicle.

Mazen al-Tumeizi, a Palestinian working for Al-Arabiya, one of the main Arab satellite television channels, was among 12 people - all believed to be civilians - killed in the incident on Haifa Street.

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On Haifa Street, a main road in central Baghdad that has long been under the effective control of Saddam loyalists, there were several hours of gunfire during a United States mission to capture 21 men the Iraqi government described as terrorists.

A Bradley fighting vehicle was damaged by an apparent car bomb. A total of five American soldiers were wounded in the explosion and during the operation to evacuate the crew.

Later, a crowd of Iraqis gathered round the burning vehicle and some began dancing in celebration.

Tumeizi was describing the incident on camera when two helicopter gunships were seen flying down the street and opening fire. Tumeizi was hit by a bullet and doubled over, shouting: I'm dying, I'm dying." About 50 people were wounded, the health ministry said, among them a Reuters cameraman and an Iraqi reporter for the Guardian.

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foreverburn

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Mon Sep-13-04 01:04 PM
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1. God that sucks.

That's like Michael J. Fox in Mars Attacks.

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mrbassman03

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Mon Sep-13-04 01:09 PM
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3. That will gain us even more friends in the global media...

n/t

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cheezus

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Mon Sep-13-04 01:08 PM
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2. god dammit

I'm sure that goes a long way towards winning hearts and minds in the middle east.

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BurtWorm

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Mon Sep-13-04 01:16 PM
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4. How many US media have reported this story?

I found it on salon.com. Has anyone else reported it?

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Bridget Burke

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Mon Sep-13-04 01:21 PM
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5. It was on CBS TV news this morning.

Real early. Spattered blood & a translation of his dying words.

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BurtWorm

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Mon Sep-13-04 01:34 PM
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6. It has three sentences in the NY Times

part of a larger story on spreading violence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/international/middleeast/13iraq.html?pagewanted=2

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delete_bush

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Mon Sep-13-04 02:28 PM
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7. LA media won't report this...

Edited on Mon Sep-13-04 02:28 PM by delete_bush

afraid it could turn into the latest form of reality TV.

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