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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (5331)8/18/2003 8:18:51 PM
From: LindyBill   of 793925
 
If These reporters want to mix it up with the warfare going on in Iraq they are going to get hit. Some GI thought the camera was an RPG pointed at him and took him out.

Death of Journalist Killed by G.I.'s Prompts Calls for Inquiry

....Other witnesses told the news agency that while it should have been clear that Mr. Dana was a journalist, the soldiers in the tanks apparently thought he was preparing to attack them. Mr. Dana's driver, Munzer Abbas, told The A.P. that "one of the soldiers told us they thought Mazen was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade", an armor-piercing weapon that has taken a number of American lives in Iraq......
nytimes.com
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