Posted on 06/05/2004 12:21:58 PM PDT by BJungNan
NEWS CREW IN IRAQ TIPPED OFF TO LOCATION OF ROADSIDE BOMB DID NOT RELAY INFORMATION TO COALITION CONVOY
MOSUL, Iraq - Coalition soldiers questioned two news media cameramen and a reporter after a roadside bomb exploded near a Coalition convoy two kilometers north of Mosul June 3.
The media, who were at the scene prior to the attack, told soldiers at the scene they had received a tip to be at that location prior to the attack and they had witnessed the explosion.
There was minimal damage to a Coalition vehicle, a cracked windshield, and no serious injuries.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division soldiers requested the media accompany them to a base camp in Mosul to answer questions as witnesses to the incident. The news media representatives left the base camp in the mid afternoon.
What, you mean the news media is working with the enemy?
I'm shocked!
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Utterly disgusting.
Those B@st@rds.
A little bit of summary justice meted to that crew right on spot would not be amiss, would it?
Your either with us or against us
ABCNNBCBS?
Who was the crew?
Reuters?
Please do identify this excresences when possible. Al Jazeera I believe. Reuters, definitely. AP or AFP or BBC, possibly. CBSNBCABCMSNBCCNN? God help them if we ever find out.
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20040609.txt
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Each of these traitors should be chained to the front of a coalition convoy vehicle every time it leaves basecamp, 'so they can arrive at the action before the troops'. I want to know what 'media outlet' they worked for. The vids coming out of Najaf that showed the terrorist Sadr goons shooting rockets at coalition forces should have told the story well enough to have that network banned immediately from Iraqi soil.
If they are Al-Jazeera this is nothing new. They always seem to be around for beheadings, hangings, etc.
I think we would like to know WHICH news agencys had this foreknowledge...then GO AFTER THEM, BIG TIME.
Never forget when CNN didn't want to blow the whistle on atrocities in IRAQ before 9/11 because Saddam would keep letting them have exclusive interviews...
Not at all. I think the term "fragging" ought to be re-introduced into the lexicon.
These guys were almost certainly local stringers who had worked for Iraqi state TV before the war. i.e. terrorists with video cameras.
They should have been taken out and shot....no ifs, no ands and no damn buts.
I think that they should have just opened up on the media. If I find out which network it was, I will never again watch it. I am very angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" The news media representatives left the base camp in the mid afternoon."
In body bags to feed the local rats?
The media, who were at the scene prior to the attack, told soldiers at the scene they had received a tip to be at that location prior to the attack and they had witnessed the explosion.
I’ll bet the media crew was terribly disappointed not to be able to get great footage of dead American soldiers.
Note to Military in Iraq - if you spot a news crew set up along the road, be very, very careful.
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