One of Neidringhaus's last photographs. An Afghan girl helps her brother down from a security barrier in the eastern Afghan city of Khost.
Posted on 04/04/2014 6:38:42 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Associated Press was killed and a reporter from the news agency was wounded by a police officer in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said.
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, a photographer who had covered numerous conflicts, and Kathy Gannon, 60, the reporter, were shot in Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan, where they had traveled to cover preparations for the country’s presidential election on Saturday. Both had spent many years covering the war in Afghanistan and knew the country well.
Ms. Gannon, who was shot twice, was receiving treatment at a hospital in the city of Khost, the provincial capital. The A.P. said she was in stable condition and talking to medical personnel. An official from the American-led coalition later said that Ms. Gannon was being evacuated by foreign forces to one of the main NATO bases in the country, where there is a hospital equipped to handle severe battlefield trauma.
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Afghan police officers and soldiers have shot and killed scores of troops from the coalition in recent years, and at times have turned on civilians working with foreign forces. But the attack on Friday was believed to be the first time an Afghan police officer had intentionally killed a foreign journalist.
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One of Neidringhaus's last photographs. An Afghan girl helps her brother down from a security barrier in the eastern Afghan city of Khost.
Frankly, I’m not worried about ‘journolists’ with an agenda or otherwise, really. It’s the soldiers I care about.
awful...
Just another day in paradise.
I still have the capacity to be offended when the Afghan police shoot people they are supposed to be protecting, which is part of the article.
As for journalists, death happens in a war zone, even at the hands of your police escort.
Kathy Gannon has been doing yeoman’s work, reporting on a war that has largely vanished from the headlines, in a locale that was always dangerous - a danger that assumed concrete form in this attack on her and her colleague. RIP to the deceased and best of luck with a speedy recovery to Ms Gannon.
Agree 100%.
shot because they were female
Unless there is reporting on the war, the soldiers will get no support. Notice how it has nearly dropped out of the US press...and say a prayer for this reporter, who was doing her job trying to keep the world aware of Afghanistan.
Here is another example of the late Anja Niedringhaus's photojournalism in Afghanistan:
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Why should I say a prayer for her? She wasn’t a reporter embedded with US troops. She, her photographer and fellow sister Journalist Anja are/were primarily civil reporters concentrating on local politics, womens’ rights, elections, etc.
If you look at her photo/article albums, you’ll barely see anything about US soldiers at all, save for an occasional picture of a captured US soldier.
Frankly? No - no way.
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