Reuters Cameraman in Haditha-No Mention of Massacre

A person who worked for Iraqi TV was murdered just 2 weeks before the Hadithi story was published. The official had the same last name as the alleged massacre victims in Hadithi. Was he related? Did he provide any of the film or photos used in the massacre alligation? Maybe he had footage to prove the contrary, but more than likely he had access to enough footage from Iraq to manufacture the evidence.

Xinhua General News Service
March 11, 2006 Saturday 4:00 AM EST
SECTION: WORLD NEWS; Political
LENGTH: 101 words
HEADLINE: Gunmen kill senior TV official in Baghdad
DATELINE: BAGHDAD

BODY: Unknown gunmen ambushed the car of the director in the government-backed Iraqia TV in western Baghdad on Saturday, a police source told Xinhua.

"Unidentified armed men shot dead Amjad hamid Hassan, director of Iraqiya TV, near the al-Shurta tunnel," Captain Ahmed Abdullah from Baghdad police said.

He added that the attack took place at about 10:30 a.m. (0730 GMT).

Iraqi security forces cordoned off the scene and an ambulance reached to evacuate the victims.

The Iraqiya TV cut its regular programs and announced the news and started broadcasting holly Quran following the incident.

LOAD-DATE: March 12, 2006

SBD

I bet there are more articles on Haditha and the Marines than there are on Haditha and the regime:

1995 : (50+ SHIITE POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM ABU GHRAIB PRISON ARE SENT TO A TESTING FACILITY AT AL-HADITHA, WHERE UNIT 2100 CONDUCTS CHEMICAL & BIOLOGICAL TESTS ON THEM) The most compelling case involved alleged biological weapons tests carried out on Shiite political prisoners by a mysterious Unit 2100, a U.N. inspection team document shows. According to the document, at least 50 prisoners from Abu Gharib prison west of Baghdad were rounded up in 1995 and sent to a secret testing facility in Al-Haditha, a remote community in Iraq's western desert. "Unit 2100 was subordinate directly to the Ministry for Military Industry ... which was headed by Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamil," states the document, which is based on intelligence supplied by a senior Iraqi defector. "The unit conducted experiments on human subjects using chemical and biological warfare agents," the document goes on. "Prisoners who were sent to Unit 2100 did not return."... ..."There were rumors of these things all the time, but it was very dangerous to discuss them," said Ziad Abed Al-Hamid, a retired Iraqi air force colonel who believes his father-in-law was among the prisoners at Abu Gharib used as a guinea pig. Al-Hamid said his relative, an army colonel named Adnan Abbas, was officially condemned to death anyway for criticizing Saddam. But when the family pulled strings with the military for the body to be returned, it arrived without the usual bullet hole in the head. "He didn't have a mark on him, nothing," Al-Hamid recalled bitterly. "We were told not to touch him. We were told to bury him as fast as possible."----- "SADDAM TESTED DEADLY WEAPONS ON HUMANS, ACCOUNTS SAY," by Paul Salopek, Arizona Republic, from the Chicago Tribune, 16th July, 2003, http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0716IraqWeapons16-ON.html [* Note : Haditha is the town where US Marines were later accused of atrocities...]

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