On April 6, 2003, David Bloom, 39, an American journalist for NBC television, embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq died from an apparent blood clot near Baghdad.
No offense to David Bloom but why is he even listed in this report. An "apparent" blood clot. What are they trying to insinuate??
I don't think they were insinuating anything. The reporter probably wasn't firm in the facts, and tossed that in from memory.
The important thing, you see, is that reporters were hurt or killed in Iraq. Everything else pales in comparison. David Bloom died, and Kimberly was severely injured. Nothing else matters.
He was an embedded reporter who chose to crouch in the front of the vehicle that he was riding in to get a good perspective of the route that the convoy was taking.
He would not have gotten the blood clot if he had not been in the crouched position for an extended period of time. [his choice, but still a death as a result of covering the war.]
Probably that no autopsy was done and so they are not sure exactly what killed him. He wasn't looking too good in the reports made just before he died. Pretty good reporting of the initial invasion from a grunt's eye view.