Re: US Forces Kill Reuters Journalist

Rifleman wrote:
"Strabo" <strabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:p5g9h1trnqjm2v89d0r2g34urbn69j9mi6@xxxxxxxxxx

In US Forces Kill Reuters Journalist on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:57:15
-0400, by Bob Brock, we read:


Records are already being broken........

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- A soundman working for Reuters Television was
shot dead Sunday in Baghdad, and a cameraman with him was wounded and
then detained by United States soldiers. An Iraqi police report, read
to Reuters by an Interior Ministry official, said the two had been
shot by American forces.

A United States military spokesman, Lt. Col. Steven A. Boylan, said
the incident was being investigated, and an official statement
indicated that the Americans were responding to an attack on an Iraqi
police convoy when the journalists were shot.

The death brings to 66 the number of journalists and their aides
killed in Iraq since the start of the invasion in 2003, said Reporters
Without Borders, a Paris-based news media rights group. That surpasses
the 63 journalists killed over 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, the
group said.

The soundman, Waleed Khaled, 35, was struck by a bullet to the face
and at least four to the chest as he drove to investigate a report

from police sources of an incident involving police officers and

gunmen in the Hay al-Adil district in western Baghdad. 

More killed than during WWII and Korea?

The forces deployed are dumber now than they have ever been before.





considering that the Journalists (insurgents with a camera) are traveling with the insurgent forces when they attack Americans so they can get some really good footage of Americans getting killed, I think the number is pretty low.

The real problem is we haven't shot enough of the lying pieces of *** to keep them out of combat.

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