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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (364)	8/17/2003 6:20:09 PM
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U.S. troops thought camera was RPG, military says Sunday August 17, 5:42 pm ET WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. military acknowledged on Sunday that its troops in Iraq had "engaged" a Reuters cameraman, saying they had thought his camera was a rocket propelled grenade launcher. "Army soldiers engaged an individual they thought was aiming an RPG at them. It turned out to be a Reuters cameraman," Navy Capt. Frank Thorp, a spokesman for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told Reuters in Washington. Cameraman Mazen Dana, 43, was shot and killed on Sunday while filming near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Witnesses said he was shot by soldiers on an American tank. biz.yahoo.com