R.I.P.
Prayers for his wife, family, friends, and co-workers (As much as freelancers have co workers)...
Posted on 08/02/2005 10:53:01 PM PDT by technomage
American Journalist Found Dead in Iraq
08/03 12:48a CDT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP)
An American freelance journalist was found dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday.
Police said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint hours earlier.
"I can confirm to you that officials in Basra have recovered the body of journalist Steven Vincent," said embassy spokesman Pete Mitchell. "The U.S. Embassy is working with British military and local Iraqi officials in Basra to determine who is responsible for the death of this journalist. Our condolences go out to the family."
Iraqi police in Basra said Vincent was abducted along with his female translator at gunpoint Tuesday evening. The translator, Nour Weidi, was seriously wounded.
God bless him.
"But you can only experience fear for so long; eventually, you want to fight back. How dare these bearded maniacs threaten all that we value and hold dear!" - Steven Vincent
God Bless. May he Rest in Peace,
R.I.P.
Prayers for his wife, family, friends, and co-workers (As much as freelancers have co workers)...
That's what I was talking about. In an interview he gave to National Review, he talks about Nour and says he cannot give her last name because they are after her for her activism.
Now that she was with him when he died and the article posted her name that she was wounded, her last name is now out.
Sorry, I didn't make myself too clear above.
No surprise given the sub-human butchers in Iraq. R.I.P. Steven Vincent.
Overall & unfortunately we can't win the vast majority for numerous reasons, to reaching for the goal of tangible freedom in working toward a real republic.
While there are many Iraqi's sick and tired of the ex-Saddam killers, the Wahhabist psychopaths & Shi'ite armed madmen, but all it takes is one, just one determined, insane, brainwashed jihadist, regardless of the sect of Islam, strapped with enough explosives to inflict death & horrible injuries, and 10, 20, 50 or more Iraqis attempting to clean out their nation of these jihadic robots are massacred, and many more injured for life in more ways then one.
Even if we sufficiently train more then the required Iraqi military & civil police forces, if the rouge régimes in Damascus & Tehran are not toppled the Islamic terrorist plague will rapidly seize control of Baghdad, in similar to the way the North Vietnamese Red horde did when American forces evacuated from Saigon. It's not one rotten apple, the whole barrel is rotten in terms of the majority of Iraq's bordering states.
How come some people are jerks ?
Welcome to FR.
The scumbag, cappuccino-drinking, loafer-wearing MSM reporters who hang out in the bar at the Al-Rasheed synchronizing which lies they're going to report each day are likely very opposed to anyone telling the truth from over here.
Look at his vast posting history. 4 comments, all negative. And, he is good with pictures. Retread troll.
It must have accidentally taken a right when it was on its way to DU and gotten lost.
I believe any investigation regarding this incident should take a good hard look on the fact that the female translator's life was spared. Could be nothing...
May God comfort and strengthen his family..
It will be given directions back to DU shortly I suspect.
We lost a good one, indeed.
I thought I smelled ozone in here.
I see some cat fur on the furniture, too.
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