Three-man British TV crew missing in Iraq

Reuters | 3/22/03

[kattracks]

Three-man British TV crew missing in Iraq

LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - British TV company ITN said on Saturday a three-man crew was missing after coming under fire in Iraq on their way to the southern city of Basra.

ITN named the three as correspondent Terry Lloyd and colleagues Fred Nerac and Hussein Othman.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Were they traveling with the military or on their own?

[syriacus]

Thanks for posting this, kattracks.

http://www.itn.co.uk/company/tv/itv/reporters/itv_lloyd.shtml


Terry Lloyd is a News Correspondent for ITV News, the news service produced by ITN for ITV. He has done general reporting for ITV News since the beginning of 1993 after spending two years based in Birmingham as Midlands correspondent.

Terry joined ITN, who supply news for ITV, in 1983 as a reporter from Central Television where he had been their East Midlands reporter. He was previously with Raymonds News Agency as a reporter and news editor.

On joining ITV News he specialised in crime stories for nine months before returning to general reporting. His reports during this time included coverage of the Lebanese Government's collapse in Beirut in February 1984 and coverage of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in the summer of 1984. He also covered the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.

Terry was the first reporter to get inside the town of Halabje in Iraq after Saddam Hussein had dropped a chemical bomb on his own Kurdish people. Terry got the first exclusive pictures - and report - out, with bodies still lying where they fell.

Terry won an award for ITV News for being the first reporter to get inside Kosovo as the Western world awaited access from the Serbs. He climbed a mountain with cameraman Mike Inglis to get in from the Monte Negro side.

In January 1993 Terry was the only British television reporter on board the US aircraft carrier Kittyhawk as she launched planes against Iraq, and brought exclusive coverage of the planes taking off and the Iraqi targets being hit.

Early in 1994 he was witnessing the conflict in former Yugoslavia. In March he reported exclusively on the discovery of mass graves at Ovcara near Vukovar which contained the remains of several hundred bodies, thought to be Croats who had disappeared from the local hospital over a year earlier. Terry also reported on the situation in an around Vitez where the three-sided civil war had almost reached anarchic proportions.

1995 saw Terry Lloyd return to Bosnia several times, reporting from Zepa on the plight of the increasing number of refugees, and from the capital Sarajevo on the NATO air strikes against the Serb positions around the city.

Terry Lloyd has covered a wide range of stories, both domestic and international. In July 1997 he was in Cambodia reporting on the fighting there following the collapse of the country's coalition government. He also covered the historic, successful attempt by Thrust SSC and Britain's Andy Green on the world land speed record in the Nevada Desert and, more recently, Richard Branson's around the world balloon attempt.

 

[turbojugend]

media pukes. who cares?

[FRgal4u]

as long as they are not part of our embedds and with the us/uk troops..then i don't care...why should these people go out on their own...haven't they leaned Bob Simon was almost killed the iraqis in 91...

[PhiKapMom]

Can we somehow lose Stephie from ABC somewhere over there -- he had the first question to General Franks and as usual he was an idiot.

Not too impressed with the Brits questions either. One guy from BBC asked a legitimate question along with Fox and NBC -- hard to remember any others. The Brit from the London Times was arrogant and condenscending to General Franks.

[The Old Hoosier]

media pukes. who cares?

Hey, asshole, how can you care so little about human life?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

media pukes. who cares?

Their families care, their friends care, and I care.

Read my tag line, moron.

[John H K]

On their own, not embedded.

Media is now freaking out because the Safwan-Basra area isn't as safe to wander freely in as, say, North Dakota, and are intimating the military is lying to them, etc.

[PhiKapMom]

If they were alone, they were not embedded and travel at their own risk. This idea that you have to break something first without first getting CENTCOM approval makes me ill!

[Trident/Delta]

Well, perhaps we should send in the Helen Thomas SAR team.

Semper Fi

[strmchsertx]

There have been reports coming from Iraq that three journalists have been killed and three others have been captured, according to NBC.

[syriacus]

Terry Lloyd seems like a pretty frank guy.

From the Muslim Council of Britain
http://www.mcb.org.uk/archivenews.php

MCB takes media action

Thu 17 Jan 2002

ITN has apologised for its use of the phrase 'Terrorist Capitals'. The MCB media committee wrote to ITN News in late December 2001 to complain of a TV news REPORT BY THEIR REPORTER TERRY LLOYD who HAD DESCRIBED THE MOVEMENTS OF THE ALLEGED SHOE-BOMBER Richard Reid.

TERRY LLOYD HAD SAID THAT MR. REID HAD VISITED SEVERAL 'TERRORIST CAPITALS' dring his travels and mentioned Islamabad, Cairo and Istanbul in the same sentence.

The MCB have this week received a letter from the Deputy Editor of ITV News, Robin Elias, dated 10th January 2002 in which he has apologised to the MCB and has agreed "that the phrase 'terrorist capitals of the world' was inappropriate."  

[Outrance]

They are supposed to COVER the news not be the news.

[syriacus]

Sky news

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1084683,00.html

BRITISH TV CREW MISSING IN IRAQ


A British TV crew has been reported missing in southern Iraq.

The crew members disappeared after coming under fire at Iman Anas while travelling toward Basra, ITN announced.

One of the crew, Daniel Demoustier, was injured but was able to get to safety.

He was not able to see what happened to his colleagues, reporter Terry Lloyd and colleagues Fred Nerac and Hussein Othman.

There were British and Iraqi forces in the area at the time.

ITN said Coalition and Iraqi military sources have been unable to confirm the whereabouts of the crewmembers but every effort was being made to establish what happened.

[The FRugitive]

media pukes. who cares?

Hey, asshole, how can you care so little about human life?

I agree, what's with all the adolescent jerks on FR as of late?

[syriacus]

http://www.oneworld.org/rorypeck/award99/entrants.htm

Daniel Demoustier Belgian Kosovo ITN October 98, June 99

[YaYa123]

I was watching, wishing General Franks would have gotten tougher questions, more that questioned our motives and methods, and delivered with more condescending antagonism. I bet he was ready for them..

I'm watching CNN Paula Zahn and their weekend White House reporterette, discuss Campbell Brown's question yesterday to ARi about gee golly whiz, how can President Bush not be glued to the television as the bombs are falling? What kind of leader is he? Doesn't he care about the war? (That's the real agenda here).

Amazing isn't it, how silly the media can look when their intent is to attempt to malign this president. As if the president has to rely on NBC to find out what's going on in Baghdad!

[Joe 6-pack]

"media pukes. who cares?"

I suppose this was your attitude to the al-qaeda kidnapping and murder of Daniel Perle?

You're lower than amphibian sh!t.

[reflecting]

I agree, it is getting out of hand. I think these are folks with an agenda. (to make conservatives look bad)