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Report: Shooting of Cameraman Tragic But Justified LONDON (Reuters) - An American soldier who killed Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana in Iraq (news - web sites) was justified in opening fire, a U.S. army report said on Monday. The report, made public seven months after Dana died, found that the soldier's "decision to fire at Mr. Dana, though tragic and regrettable, was justified based on the information available to him at the time." Reuters said it could not agree that the death of Dana, a prize-winning Palestinian cameraman, was justified and called for the urgent implementation of recommendations in the report...

<p>U.S. soldiers acted within the rules on opening fire when they shot and killed a Reuters television cameraman last month while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday.</p> <p>Mazen Dana, 41, was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad when he was fatally shot Aug. 17 by U.S. soldiers who the military said mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Dana, a Palestinian, was filming a day after a mortar attack in which six prisoners were killed and about 60 were wounded.</p>

<p>WITH AMERICAN soldiers being killed almost daily in Iraq, nervousness among the occupying forces is understandable. But there is no excuse for US troops gunning down a TV cameraman doing his job, as happened to a prize-winning Reuters newsman on Sunday.</p>

"'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>U.S. soldier dies in blast in Iraq; 2 hurt in attack Watchdog groups press Army for investigation after troops kill journalist Associated Press Originally published August 19, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Violence continued in the Iraqi capital, claiming the life of another U.S. soldier, while journalism watchdogs called yesterday for an investigation into the killing of a Reuters cameraman by U.S. troops Sunday.</p>

Anger over cameraman killing From correspondents in Hebron, West BankAugust 19, 2003STEPPING on an American flag laid out as a doormat, mourners lashed out at the United States today at the wake for a Reuters cameraman killed by US soldiers in Iraq. Mazen Dana, a 43-year-old Palestinian, had spent much of his professional life covering another flashpoint, his hometown of Hebron. On the job, he was shot and beaten several times by Israeli troops, and acknowledged the risks of working in one of the most volatile areas of the West Bank. Dana, a father of four, was shot and killed...

Beirut, Aug 19, IRNA -- The US forces' Sunday act of murdering Mazen Dana, a Palestinian photojournalist in Baghdad, raised the outrage of the Lebanese and Arab world journalist circles. Head of the Lebanese Writers Union (LWU), Mulhim Karam, on Monday ondemned the brutal murdering of that Palestinian photojournalist, emphasizing, "The US army's move can only be interpreted as another case of state terrorism against free flow of Information from the occupied Iraq." Issuing a special communique on the issue, the LWU, too, said, "Dana was not carrying bombs to kill the innocent people with, but simply his camera, with...

LONDON, Aug. 18 — International journalists' groups and Reuters demanded today that the American military hold a full public inquiry into the death of a Reuters cameraman who was fatally shot by American soldiers in Iraq on Sunday as he filmed outside a prison. The cameraman, Mazen Dana, 43, was the second Reuters journalist to be killed by American troops in Iraq since the invasion began on March 20. His colleague Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian usually based in Warsaw, died on April 8 when an American tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel, from which Mr. Protsyuk was filming...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Fellow journalists accused U.S. troops of negligence in the shooting death of a Reuters cameraman, saying it was clear the victim was a newsman when soldiers on two tanks opened fire. Press advocacy groups called for an investigation. Mazen Dana, 43, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Sunday while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Press advocacy groups Reporters Without Borders and the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists demanded a full investigation into the shooting. Reporters Without Borders...

<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>

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Fellow journalists accused U.S. troops of negligence in the shooting death of a a Reuters cameraman, saying he was clearly identified as a newsman when a tank opened fire at him. Mazen Dana, 41, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Sunday while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The film Dana shot showed a tank driving toward him. Six shots were heard, and the camera appeared to tilt forward and drop to the ground after the...

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...

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...

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...