Posted on 09/13/2004 10:35:43 AM PDT by billbirmingham
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
viewing problems...probably network...
I can't get it to open.
Dan Rather's next assignment to be a reporter in Iraq?
Send a copy to ALL reporters to let them know what will happen to them when they support our enemies - that makes the reporters ACTIVE enemies also.
Psy-Ops are essential battle tools and these "reporters" are simply the psy-ops of the islamic jihad.
Note to Mr Tomaisi:
1. Friendly Fire is NOT Friendly.
2. When there is INCOMING...FIND COVER.
3. If no cover available, stand behind a fat-body.
As I said in another thread..wonder how he knew to be there with his camera man?
That only changes the texture of the hamburger.
Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By.
Possibly. Depending on the size of the disgusting fat-body, one can be shielded from shrpanel and the blast effect. At the very least, the shrapnel is slowed down. In any event, with incoming, it's time to practice that old tactic of:
"GETTING THE HELL OUT OF DODGE!"
Will CBS make this Dan Rather's next assignment?
What's cool about someone- anyone- getting killed? And how is he a 'terrorist journalist', even if he works for Al Jazeera? Is that what makes it 'cool'?
Another thing to teach your kids; don't dance around disabled military vehicles that are still smoking.
And the moral of the story: stand around and gawk and/or play a part in attacks on our troops - YOU DIE.
No sympathy. Too bad.
Probably one of the idiots who celebrated on 9/11.
This is still a warzone. Bad things still happen. The reporter was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'm sorry about what happened. But then again, I don't recall much sympathy from the International Press for the American Contractors who were killed and their bodies dragged and hung through the streets of Fallalujah.
I think this is a message to all over there. If you want to celebrate the downing of a US vehicle, soldier etc. be warned as you will be considered part and parcel to the act if you hang around the scene of the crime.
nick
Wardrobe malfunction.
His vest blew up, somehow.
Frankly, I think they are idiots to be so close to the action.
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