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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop - TV reporter killed by US fire during live Baghdad broadcast
By Adrian Blomfield in Baghdad
(Filed: 13/09/2004)
A television journalist was shot dead as he made a live broadcast from Baghdad yesterday when United States helicopters fired on a crowd that had gathered round the burning wreckage of an American armoured vehicle.
Mazen al-Tumeizi, a Palestinian working for Al-Arabiya, one of the main Arab satellite television channels, was among 12 people - all believed to be civilians - killed in the incident on Haifa Street.
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I was under the impression that he was killed while the helicopters were trying to completely destroy the Bradley, so that it would not be salvageable by the Iraqi insurgents. Still a shame, but it doesn't seem like it was an intentional attack on civillians.
Oh, and there was a recent article by Robert Kagan in the Atlantic about the Marines and Fallujah. Good stuff -- I'll see if I can find it online to post a link.
