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Journalist killed on camera-(Cheering Bradley crowd meets 7.62mm)
Herald Sun ^
| 13sep04
| Journalist killed on camera
Posted on 09/12/2004 3:55:33 PM PDT by Flavius
A PALESTINIAN television journalist was killed today as he was giving a live report to camera on deadly clashes between US forces and insurgents in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
Residents of his home town in the West Bank watched in horror as Mazen al-Tomaisi, who worked for Saudi television Akhbariya and for the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, went down.
Mr Tomaisi, 28, was killed when a US helicopter fired missiles on a mob which had gathered round a US tank in Baghdad that had been set ablaze in a car bomb attack, one of a string of bombings across the capital today.
Blood spattered across the cameraman's lens and screams were heard by viewers of the Al-Arabiya report.
Mr Tomaisi, from the West Bank town of Idna, is the fourth Palestinian journalist killed in Iraq.
An Iraqi cameraman and an Iraqi photographer were also slightly wounded by flying shrapnel during the attack.
An Iraqi official later said a total of 13 people were killed, including two children, and 55 were wounded during the battle in Haifa Street, a suspected bastion of Saddam Hussein loyalists, where insurgents and US troops clash regularly.
The US military said four soldiers were also wounded.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carswarm; hellfire; iraq; journalist; snort; warcorrespondent
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To: All
Getty images are not permitted to be posted on FR. Not the content at fault, but they do not permit it
To: Flavius
102
posted on
09/12/2004 5:17:08 PM PDT
by
Boazo
To: SJackson
103
posted on
09/12/2004 5:17:50 PM PDT
by
Happy2BMe
(52 days until November 2nd)
"D U? Those guys are fags!"
104
posted on
09/12/2004 5:19:16 PM PDT
by
StAnDeliver
(Thus spake Spicoli)
To: Flavius
This from
Al-Jazeera: "Reuters footage showed the crowd to be made up of unarmed boys and men, two of whom were standing on top of the Bradley. Some had been celebrating the destruction of the armoured car. Others were discussing what had happened and quietly watching the Bradley burn, sending thick black smoke into the sky. Then the attack began. Pretty soon Allah will run out of virgins. We wont run out of bullets.
105
posted on
09/12/2004 5:21:33 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: Flavius
This from
Al-Jazeera: "Reuters footage showed the crowd to be made up of unarmed boys and men, two of whom were standing on top of the Bradley. Some had been celebrating the destruction of the armoured car. Others were discussing what had happened and quietly watching the Bradley burn, sending thick black smoke into the sky. Then the attack began. Pretty soon Allah will run out of virgins. We wont run out of bullets.
106
posted on
09/12/2004 5:21:56 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: everitt12
LOL! They have a very disjointed view of us.
107
posted on
09/12/2004 5:21:56 PM PDT
by
rabidralph
(Hey Kerry, Bush-Cheney are too polite to say it but, you are a threat to national security.)
To: Happy2BMe
To: Slings and Arrows
109
posted on
09/12/2004 5:26:32 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
(The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
To: Flavius
110
posted on
09/12/2004 5:48:49 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: Ronaldus Magnus
I will shed not ONE single tear for the human trash that would either celebrate or exult in reporting the defeat, death or injury of our fine men and women in uniform.
To those on the DU ...
BITE ME!
111
posted on
09/12/2004 5:50:41 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Kerry broke the faith, pure and simple.)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Mr. Jazzy
I hope you aren't insinuating about my post or my motivations. Whether or not the guy needed killin', only some kind of psychopath could find watching anyone's guts get blown onto a camera lens anything but "pretty gross".
To: Ronaldus Magnus
No insinuations sensed or reflected. Simply stating my personal feelings.
As to whether or not the video is gross, I'm sure it is.
Hopefully it is sufficiently gross enough for our enemies to see what happens to them when they party at the expense of OUR patriots.
114
posted on
09/12/2004 6:45:12 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jazzy
(Kerry broke the faith, pure and simple.)
To: Flavius
Never bring a camera to a gun fight.
To: mhking
How about just a small glass parking lot located in Baghdad, center-city Haifa Street?
116
posted on
09/12/2004 6:55:04 PM PDT
by
Jaded
((Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain))
To: Slings and Arrows
Stellar!!!!! Inter-stellar overdrive!!
117
posted on
09/12/2004 6:58:23 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Allah FUBAR!)
To: Alouette
Good shooting. Maybe the IDF will follow the example. Bump for truth
To: Slings and Arrows
To: NativeNewYorker
Amazing. They can count the killed and wounded women and children, but they cannot confirm if the casualties from the intial car bomb were Americans.
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