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  • Army report: Shooting of cameraman justified

    03/22/2004 10:26:52 PM PST · by SkyPilot · 29 replies · 152+ views
    Reuters | 23 MArch 2004 | Not listed
    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...