Syria shelling of Homs kills 2 Western journalists

The Washington Times ^ | Feb 22, 2012 | Bassem Mroue

[OldCorps]

BEIRUT (AP) — A French photojournalist and an American working for a British newspaper were killed Wednesday by Syrian government shelling of the opposition stronghold of Homs, France’s government said.

Activists said at least two other Western journalists were injured in barrages that claimed at least 19 lives.

In Paris, French government spokeswoman Valerie Pecresse said those killed were French photojournalist Remi Ochlik and American veteran war reporter Marie Colvin, who was working for Britain’s Sunday Times. France’s Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, said the attacks show the “increasingly intolerable repression” by Syrian forces.

The Syrian military has redoubled its attacks on Homs in the past few days, aiming to retake neighborhoods that have come under control of the opposition and armed rebels — many of them military defectors. The seizure of territory and nearly daily clashes between the rebels and regime forces have pushed Syria to the brink of all-out civil war.

[OldCorps]

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[Tzimisce]

Ha! Joke’s on the Syrians!

We have TONS more liberal journalists where these guys came from. :)

[OldCorps]

Sorry all you commie urinalists, I can't mourn the death of any "journalist," especially the western variety.

I mourn the death of soldiers always.

[OldCorps]

We have TONS more liberal journalists where these guys came from. :)

This could be a win-win! We keep shipping "Western journalists" to Syria, and they keep killing them!

[cartan]

Are they “journalists?” To me, a “journalist” is some lard ass sitting safely in a tv studio excogitating braindead Bolshie commentary to current events. People who move into a war zone to find out what’s happening and taking pictures are “newsmen,” or “reporters.”

[Mashood]

Marie Colvin looks like Nadine Hurley.

[tumblindice]

This journalist walks into a Syrian bar with a parrot on her shoulder ....

[org.whodat]

So the shell had a return address on it, will dang.

[Feckless]

The “bullet with your name on it” is not near as dangerous as arty addressed “to whom it may concern.....”

[SgtHooper]

She didn’t see it coming.