Here’s a rather sickening YouTube video clip of the photographer being gunned down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LymH0aPenBM
Crikey, even worse than reported in the NZ Herald. By that video, that sumb*tch shot the journalist point-blank in the guts. No apparent warning, nothing: he was stone dead before he even hit the ground.
What we saw happen there was a War Crime. And the International Community should ensure that the sumb*tch who pulled that trigger is one day brought to justice, along with his commanding officer, and that we all get to have the pleasure of seeing them tried and watching them hang.
Just like what happened to the hapless Saddam Hussein and his mob of thugs.
In a day-and-age when the MSM has rightly deserved a black eye for biased reporting and excessive journalistic license, these are difficult times to say good things about “journalists” reporting on war.
But it would seem that Kenji Nagai was a Journalist of the Joe Galloway tradition, a professional who went into the line of fire to capture the moment and to record the story. He was a Man of an entirely different caliber to the talking heads we normally see on CNN and the MSM, who stay out of Harm’s Way yet criticise those who venture therein.
So tonite I light a candle to his memory. Domo Arigato, Kenji Nagai-San. You died bravely and well. All gave some: you gave all.