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Either the corona situation isn’t as dangerous as the media claims it is Or this cameraman’s boss just really hates him https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1240296494277652482   

In the following shocking video, a Jewish cameraman filming a pro-Hamas rally in Miami appears to be repeatedly assaulted, and even threatened with murder (3:40).They’re openly shouting “We Are Hamas!” (4:50) and, “Jews, remember Khaybar!”

CBC cameraman Sam Martin was in the field on November 15th with reporter Briar Stewart in Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada covering a story about school buses when Sam had a very unexpected surprise. A camera friendly feline strolled near the bus then took notice of the cameraman and his gear. What appeared to be a grey and white tabby cat leapt up Sam’s back while he was shooting a promo for the story, made its way atop the cameraman’s head, then perched on the tripod mounted camera. video at link

Hassan Gol Khanban is thought to have planned his defection in advance of his trip to the United States, taking steps to have his family flee Iran in the hope that they too can gain asylum, his lawyer, Paul O'Dwyer, said. Mr Khanban, who is believed to have worked for the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB for several years, had accompanied Mr Ahmadinejad to New York to attend last week's session of the UN General Assembly. Mr O'Dwyer said that his client's wife and two children had left Iran while he was in New York and that efforts were being made...

An amateur cameraman claims he's got video proof that California Sen. Barbara Boxer's supporters enlisted day laborers to hold signs protesting her Republican opponent. Derek Broes, a supporter of GOP Senate nominee Carly Fiorina, has released a video he shot outside a Pasadena debate that showed two Spanish-speaking men holding a slapdash white sign accusing "corporate cash" of loving the Republican candidate. Though the audio is hard to hear, one of the men clearly says he did not make the sign -- another appears to say a "lady" was paying them to hold it.

Jim Quodomine Arrested, Handcuffed, Put In Squad Car For An Hour After Filming Peaceful Protest Outside Church Officer To Protesting Reporter: 'I Can Do Whatever I Want' After a week of bloody shootings in the city of Newark, family members of the victims killed by gun violence marched in front of churches Sunday to ask the clergy for help. The march ended, however, when a Newark police officer put a CBS 2 photographer in a choke hold, handcuffed him, and put him in the back of a police car. What started as a peaceful demonstration by parents whose children were...

KHARTOUM, Sudan - An Al-Jazeera cameraman released from the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center last week described it Monday as the worst prison mankind has ever seen. Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese citizen, was whisked from his hospital bed in a convoy escorted by police cars with flashing lights and wailing sirens to an outdoor event in his neighborhood organized by his family. His speech was broadcast live on Sudanese television. "After 2,340 days spent in the most heinous prison mankind has ever known, we are honored to be here. Thank you, and thank all those defended us and of our...

CAMP VICTORY, Iraq — For now, Spc. John Martinez’s sense of community is this bustling military installation, which is actually a network of a number of camps between the Baghdad International Airport and the International — sometimes called the Green — Zone. Martinez is one of slightly more than 100 11th Signal Brigade headquarters soldiers from Fort Huachuca who pulled up stakes, trading one desert climate for another for 15 months. Besides the 11th, more than 400 soldiers of the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion from Fort Huachuca, as well as other GIs from the fort, are now serving away from...

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Two BBC men shot in Saudi capital Gardner has been BBC security correspondent for the last two years BBC cameraman Simon Cumbers has been killed and correspondent Frank Gardner injured after gunmen opened fire near the Saudi capital, Riyadh. Cumbers, 36, was a freelance journalist and cameraman working for the BBC, the BBC said in a statement. Frank Gardner, 42, is the BBC's security correspondent and a leading expert on al-Qaeda, the statement said Riyadh's police chief said the attack was carried out by "unknown elements" on Sunday afternoon. The BBC statement said the two men had travelled to Saudi...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- Two Czech television journalists on assignment in Iraq have been missing since Monday morning and are believed to have been kidnapped, a spokesman for their network said. Czech Television, a public station, has not heard from Martin Kubal, a reporter, and Petr Klima, a cameraman, since the early hours of Monday, said spokesman Martin Krafl. He said that unconfirmed reports indicated the two were kidnapped as they were traveling from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan.

French Television Crew Participates in a Terrorist Attack in Iraq From Yahoo, here are advance stills from an upcoming French television broadcast which will show terrorists attacking an American cargo jet in Iraq. Apparently, the French television crew had been tagging along with the terrorists for a while before hand, and claim to be unaware of the attack beforehand. Here are video stills of the attack from 10 feet away:

"'Mazen told me by phone few days before his death that he discovered a mass grave dug by U.S. troops to conceal the bodies of their fellow comrades killed in Iraqi resistance attacks ..'" OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - The brother of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana said he was deliberately murdered for discovering mass graves of U.S. troops killed in Iraqi resistance attacks. "The U.S. troops killed my brother in cold blood," Nazmi Dana told IslamOnline.net in exclusive statements. "The U.S. occupation troops shot dead my brother on purpose, although he was wearing his press badge, which was also emblazoned on the...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military has launched a series of raids and patrols as part of the mission to hunt down deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (search) and his Fedayeen loyalists, the military said Monday.</p> <p>The military may use pictures of Saddam dressed up to look like Elvis (search) and Zsa Zsa Gabor (search) as part of the campaign to get former regime members riled up enough to come out of hiding.</p>

Palestine Media Center- (PMC) [Official arm of the PA] http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=1000 US occupation troops in Iraq shot dead an award-winning Reuters Palestinian cameraman Mazen Da’na, 43, while he was filming on Sunday near a prison run by American soldiers on the outskirts of Baghdad, to be the second Palestinian journalist killed by American forces in the Iraqi capital city. Da’na’s death brings to 17 the number of journalists or their assistants who have died in Iraq since the US-led coalition invaded the eastern Arab country on March 20. Two others have been missing since the first days of the invasion. Da’na...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Army acknowledged Monday that it had killed a television journalist after soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Meanwhile, efforts to rebuild Iraq (news - web sites) were set back over the weekend with explosions on the country's lifeblood oil pipelines and the capital's water supply. The water main in Baghdad was bombed Sunday as two fires raged out of control along an oil pipeline to Turkey, halting exports just days after they started. The army said the first fire was started by someone who ignited oil leaking from a burst pipe, but might...

Posted on Sun, Aug. 17, 2003 U.S. soldiers shoot, kill Reuters cameraman By HANNAH ALLAM, KEN DILANIAN and DREW BROWN Knight Ridder Newspapers BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. soldiers shot and killed a Reuters television cameraman outside a prison west of Baghdad on Sunday, a day after an overnight mortar attack there left six Iraqi prisoners dead and nearly 60 wounded. Mazen Dana, 41, a Palestinian who worked for the British news agency for more than a decade, was shot while filming a convoy on the road outside the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison, where several hundred criminals and anti-U.S. guerrillas are...

Aug. 17 — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana was shot dead on Sunday while working near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, witnesses said. A spokesman for Iraq's U.S.-led administration confirmed a journalist had been killed and said an investigation was under way. Witnesses said Dana, a Palestinian who has worked for Reuters for a decade, was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad when he was shot. Journalists had gone to the prison after the U.S. military said a mortar bomb attack there a day before had killed six Iraqis and wounded 59. Dana's...

The body of British freelance journalist James Miller was transferred this morning to the Abu Kabir national forensic medicine institute after Britain demanded a full investigation into the circumstances of his death. Miller, 35, who was in Rafiah making a documentary on how Palestinian children are affected by violence, was shot and killed on Friday. IDF sources said Miller was approaching Israeli troops when Palestinian gunmen shot him in the back. "Miller was facing Israeli troops when he was shot, and he was shot in the back," a senior IDF officer in the army's Gaza Brigade said Sunday morning. Earlier...

Left-wing Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., singled out a cameraman for attack by a Democrat mob in Duluth. Buried deep in a sickeningly pro-Wellstone, anti-business story in something called the Minnesota Daily, an "independent" student newspaper at the University of Minnesota, is this account of the attack Saturday at an anti-trade rally: "University student Andy Carhart said he thought the activists’ vast mix of backgrounds was great. "'I think people have gotten along together extremely well,'” he said. Tee Hee "'Except for the camera guy,'” added fellow University student Pete Meidlinger. "Meidlinger referred to a Republican who attended the event apparently...