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.
Prayers for the soldiers and their families.
How do we get Rather to cover this story. From the field of course.
These are the same people who cheer the deaths of our soldiers. Thier opinions mean about as much as a warm glass of urine to me.
Any dead palestinian is a good one, especially one who works for Al-Jazz.
They haven't forgotten - they think we had it coming. If you think I'm kidding try reading a few threads over there - just don't eat lunch first.
The Ironic thing is they are removing posts from conservatives and "non-progressives". I just read their stupid cowardly rules.
Have a look.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html
Rule 1 is all you need to know about why libs can't win in debate.
They just had the video on both the ABC and NBC evening news. The reporter was talking to the camera about 30 feet in front of a crowd of people cheering around the burning Bradley. Some of the crowd started pointing up and running about a second before the missile hit the Bradley. The camera got knocked back, the reporters blood all over the lens. It was pretty gross.
I love how "terrorism" is in scare quotes in the photo captions.
I guess it was Michael Moore's (cough) Minutemen who set the car bomb that killed the 12-year old there today along with two other civilians?
Only filth could do that on purpose...
Frightfully nasty stuff I say.
Getty photos has a good selection of the aftermath
http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/cfw/FrameSet.aspx?s=ImagesAdvancedSearchState|2|30||0||1|||||0|0|0||0||7|-1|dawn+battle+erupts|0||0|0|0&p=7
You know, I don't mind that they have their own message board (after all, we have ours, and we have been known to ZOT offenders). I do object to their hijacking of the word "progressive" - as though some logical and historical inevitability favors Socialism. The future is for freedom - and that's what we're fighting for over here - and over there.
No sympathy here.
How many times has this SAME thing happened. Even a JOURNALIST doesn't seem to be aware of the NEWS. We always destroy our war machines once they are beyond salvage. Where have these people been getting their news CNN?
Cancer and dementia are said to be 'progressive' at times. ;-)
LOL
Memo to Terrorist Murderlovers:
FIRE BAD!
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