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OXFORD (Reuters) - One of Britain's most experienced journalists was unlawfully killed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, a British inquest into his death ruled on Friday, prompting calls for the perpetrators to be tried for war crimes. Veteran war correspondent Terry Lloyd, 50, who worked for British television company ITN, was killed in March 2003 in southern Iraq as he reported from the front line during the first few days of the U.S.-led invasion. "He was fired on by American soldiers as a minibus carried wounded people away," Coroner Andrew Walker said at the conclusion of the inquest, which U.S....

WASHINGTON -- A Marine general in Iraq ripped front-line journalists for "Chicken Little" coverage of the March invasion, and advised military leaders to "never forget how quickly the press jumped on the bandwagon of doom and gloom," a critical internal study of the war reveals. "Visions of Vietnam danced in reporters' heads" during halts in the march to Baghdad, griped the commanding general of the 1st Marine Division in a 67-page draft report obtained by WorldNetDaily. Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis Maj. Gen. James N. Mattis heaped scorn on "unilateral" correspondents in his May 29 report. He said they "routinely"...

<p>AZ ZUBAYR, Iraq -- On March 22, a four-man television crew roaming the war zone alone drove rented SUVs onto a battlefield near here and into withering machine-gun fire during a confrontation between U.S. tanks and Iraqi soldiers.</p> <p>One journalist escaped. One was killed. The mystery of what happened to the other two men has consumed their employer, Britain's Independent Television News Ltd., ever since. Other reporters who happened on the scene soon afterward were barred by U.S. Marines from checking for survivors in the wrecked sport-utility vehicles, which had been labeled "TV" in large letters.</p>

LONDON (AFP) - A television journalist covering the Iraq war for Britain's Channel 4 News was found dead Sunday at a hotel in northern Iraq, his employers said, adding that there appeared to be no direct connection with military action. It is believed that Gaby Rado, 48, fell from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulyamaniya, a major town in a Kurdish controlled area, said a statement from the independent ITN network, which produces news programmes for Channel 4. The journalist had been reporting on the activities of Kurdish fighters and coalition troops in the region, which...

RAF Tornado downed by US missile It is thought a Patriot missile hit the plane An RAF Tornado and its crew are missing after being downed by a US Patriot missile close to the Kuwaiti border.A search for survivors is under way, as is an investigation into how the accident happened. Air Marshal Brian Burridge, commander of British troops in the Gulf, said the Tornado had been hit "obviously by mistake" as it returned from a mission over Iraq. William Farish, the US ambassador to Britain, told the BBC the loss of the plane was "absolutely terrible". It comes...

(CBS) One French and two American journalists were killed after crossing the border with Iraq into Nasariyah, Central Command reported Saturday. No names and affiliations were given. A third American was injured. Centcom in Doha says a total of six journalists have been killed. Two British ITN reporters in Umm Qasr were killed by Iraqis after passing a checkpoint. An apparent car bomb killed an Australian cameraman and at least four other people Saturday at a checkpoint near a camp of a militant group linked to al Qaeda. Also Saturday, ITN television news reported that three members of one of...

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.