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.
His family can take consolation in the $25,000 that Saddam will send them for his death.
A Palestinian was not killed. No nation called Palestine exists. An Arab was killed.
Can't wait to see this one on MAX X !!!
girliemen, get with the program ...
Witnesses saw an angry mob pelt the burning tank with stones and dance around the armoured vehicle as one man climbed on top, waving a black flag emblazoned with the name of Zarqawi's group Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War), while veiled women ululated.
A pair of US helicopters then swooped down over the neighborhood and fired missiles and heavy machine-gun fire into the mob, scattering at least five corpses across the ground.
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It's about damn time...
How tragic. Hope the cameraman and individuals standing around don't contract HIV.
Very technically accurate and not very politicall correct...I like it.
Yes, war is gross...so let's get on with it already and forge the peace with everything we have and losing as few as possible.
....and the horse they came in on.
I'm of the mind that no Palestinians should be allowed in Iraq. I think it is LIKELY that they have their fighters in there posing as journalists.
Excellent, Smithers.
Sorry to hear about this, but this is the kind of publicity the Democrats are looking for.
Yes, you might say that HE chose the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time...
anybody actually have the video. I'd love to see it.
Don't emulate the far left liberals *e.g. Kos. We have to keep our humanity. You can retain some sympathy for the guy and/or his family, and still think he was an idiot for hanging around the tank during a firefight. And still wonder how did he know to be right at that intersection when a celebration was going to erupt.
Wait a minute, you thought you were going to get 72 blue eyed virgins? Well I'm sorry it says right here, you get one 72 year old blue haired Virginian.
Rest in peace.
After a chopper strike into a car swarm, you need something really horrific for an encore.
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