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Reuters Cameraman, Killed in Iraq, Buried in Hebron
Mazen Dana, the Reuters cameraman killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, was buried on Wednesday in the West Bank city where he braved bullets to chronicle the tragedy of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed. About 3,000 mourners, some chanting "Americans are dogs," accompanied Danaâs body through his home town of Hebron in a procession reminiscent of final honors accorded to Palestinians killed by Israel in an uprising for statehood. Dana, a 41-year-old Palestinian, was best known for award-winning reporting from Hebron, a main flashpoint of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict where he had been wounded and beaten numerous times by Israeli soldiers. On Sunday, while on assignment in Iraq, he was shot dead by a U.S. soldier on a tank while filming near a Baghdad prison.Reuters has called on the U.S. army to investigate how, by the official U.S. account, a soldier mistook Danaâs television camera for a grenade launcher. A U.S. spokesman in Baghdad called the killing a "terrible tragedy." This kind of makes me wonder if he was "embedded", if you get my drift. Posted by: Steve 2003-08-20 |
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