Just Now on Drudge - Headline with No Link - "REPORTER MICHAEL KELLY DEAD IN IRAQ.... "

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[BCrago66]

Kelly was one of the good guys. He started off calling President Bush a "pinhead" but then came to admire him. He was sending great dispatches from Iraq.

RIP

[Peach]

May God bless him and his family. He became a true believer and will be missed.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Very sad news. One of the first liberals to see through Clinton and regularly run him through the wringer.

[apollo11]

Apologies for the duplicate post. What outfit was he with?

[BCrago66]

There's link now - to a Washington Post article by Howard Kurtz.

[MassExodus]

Very sad news. Prayers for his wife and kids.

[ImpotentRage]

I am so sorry to hear this. Michael Kelly was one a real journalist. I will miss reading his columns. Rest his soul.

[apollo11]

Is this the same Michael Kelly as the columnist for the Washington Post?

[new cruelty]

ABC Radio News: Breaking: Journalist Michael Kelly Killed at Baghdad Airport

[The Great Satan]

Yes, it is.

[kcvl]

Look under the heading...

Atlantic Monthly Editor Killed in Iraq


http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=michael+kelly&sa=N&tab=wn

[kcvl]

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 4, 2003; 10:48 AM


Michael Kelly, the Atlantic Monthly editor-at-large and Washington Post columnist who abandoned the safety of editorial offices to cover the war in Iraq, has been killed while traveling with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.

Kelly, the first American journalist killed in the war, had also served as editor of the New Republic and National Journal. But his decision to join up with U.S. forces marked a return to his reporting roots, since he covered the first Persian Gulf War as a magazine freelancer and turned his observations into a book, "Martyrs' Day." While one Australian and two British journalists have been killed covering the war, Kelly's death is the first among the 600 correspondents participating in the Pentagon's embedding program.

[BCrago66]

One thing I admire - Kelly was financially comfortable and didn't need to go Iraq to establish a career. He took the risk to chronicle the humanity and nobility of our men and women in the military.

[kcvl]

Kelly's last column was published by The Post yesterday. It began:

"Near the crest of the bridge across the Euphrates that Task Force 3-69 Armor of the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division seized yesterday afternoon was a body that lay twisted from its fall. He had been an old man – poor, not a regular soldier – judging from his clothes. He was lying on his back, not far from one of several burning skeletons of the small trucks that Saddam Hussein's willing and unwilling irregulars employed. The tanks and Bradleys and Humvees and bulldozers and rocket launchers, and all the rest of the massive stuff that makes up the U.S. Army on the march, rumbled past him, pushing on."

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michaelkelly/mk20030403.shtml

[kcvl]

[ambrose]

Clinton strikes again.

[BCrago66]

Perhaps - just the one time - the Washington Post will forgive us for republishing an article while were honoring thier reporter.:)

[Naspino]

I'm hoping this guy wasn't killed with a couple of soldiers. I imagine these guys hide near soldiers when in combat?

[hotpotato]

Martin Peretz, a close friend of Gore, fired Kelly as the magazine's editor over his continuing attacks on the Clinton administration.

What's that about free speech, leftist, and black listing?

Michael Kelly will certainly be missed.