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American soldiers targeting journalists
After a long list of complaints about municipal services in Baghdad that can only be solved by the legislature giving the mayor more money (sounds like American democracy to me) and a sentence or two on successful, they claim, Marine ops, Mr. Griffiths of the AP gets to the big issue. In other developments Thursday, Knight Ridder identified an Iraqi journalist who was shot and killed in the capital last week when his car approached an U.S.-Iraqi military patrol as one of its special correspondents. Yasser Salihee, 30, was killed while driving alone in Baghdad on June 24, his day off. A single bullet pierced his windshield and struck him in the head. It appeared that a U.S. sniper shot him, but Iraqi soldiers in the area at the time also may have been shooting, the California-based newspaper company said. It was the Americans, their Xray vision saw his press credential and the highest bider got to take the shot. Knight Ridder Inc. (KRI), which publishes 31 dailies in the United States and is the second-largest newspaper publisher in the country, hadn't reported on Salihee's death until now because his family feared reprisals from insurgents, who often target Iraqis working for foreign media organizations. Why doesn't KR try explaining why its reporter was behaving in such a fashion as to dray fire? And why does the family fear reprisals from insurgents when they are on the same side as KR? The U.S. Army was investigating the incident. Two other journalists were killed in similar incidents a few days later. More journos shot. When will it end? Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-07-01 |
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