US tank troops kill journalist

[zamboe]

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

US tank troops kill journalist

I guess that's why International Court doesn't like them.

[Andrew]

Sad when The U.S. army has the best technology, but can not tell the difference between a camera and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

[ordos45]

Sad when The U.S. army has the best technology, but can not tell the difference between a camera and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

Indeed...I'm not sure how you do mistake a camera for an RPG launcher.

[exatreide]

it had a missel coming out of it.... oh wait they forgot to tell us that.

[Caid Ivik]

I can imagine that situation. Tanks besieging a prison full of rebels. Standoff with fingers on firing buttons. Brave cameraman of semitic skin crawls with camera under wall. Then he aims to first tank to take a best shot for us. Red light turns on. Inside the tank reloader yells: "Shit, something radiated us with a laser pointer!" Commander quickly seeks for a source and yells to shooter: "Private, one Ali aiming at us with bazooka on the left, blow his head before he won't do it with us!" Private has no intentions to see the truth: finally some action!

We've learned: don't send cameramen from Palestine to take shots near Middle East battlefields.

[Acriku]

You guys haven't seen the camera. It's a huge camera, with a very long lense. It could easily be mistaken as a grenade launcher, go search for a pic on google. There's a picture of protestors with the camera on a stretcher, and you can see what the camera looks like.

[Andrew]

You guys haven't seen the camera. It's a huge camera, with a very long lense. It could easily be mistaken as a grenade launcher, go search for a pic on google. There's a picture of protestors with the camera on a stretcher, and you can see what the camera looks like.

Well then maybe they should paint the camera to not look like a RPG, like put Americas flag on it.

[Acriku]

A little bit late for that Andrew :P

[Dude_Doc]

I don't really like the whole idea of sending camera-men into the war. Iraq is an unstable country, and they should keep those guys of the field, or have them filming from a tank or in a group of troops.

[Anakin]

Well then maybe they should paint the camera to not look like a RPG, like put Americas flag on it.

ok so a terrorist could paint an american flag on the side of a bomb-filled plane and fly it into the whitehouse?

by your logic that would work

[SurlyPIG]

This guys is the 27th journalist to be killed in this war and he isn't the first to be killed by US troops. I don't see why this is topic-worthy. I feel badly for his family and co-workers of course but I'm surprised this was given it's own topic, especially considering the recent bombing of the UN building...shouldn't it be in the Iraq Issues thread?

[Sardauker-Kirov]

In WW2 there were somekind of war reporters.

They photographed and filmed the horrors of war, but some of them got probably killed too.

What's next? America troops are going to use cars that rides away from them as target practice?

Or children as a m16 practice fire-target.

[Inoculator9]

I think it is really god damn stupid that most American casualties are friendly fire related, and this just makes the whole operation look worse.

[Egeides]

And some are doubting that the deaths are accidents since westerners aren't killed/shot as much as arab journalists and cameramen (espescially in Palestine):

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/08/20/photographer/

[Dude_Doc]

Heh, next time maybe a terrorist will disguise himself with a camera-outfit, and have a real RPG...

[Anakin]

Yeah, then the US won't shoot him, and die.

We should just not let reporters get into the damn battlefield.

[Sardauker-Kirov]

Or disguise themselves as a Pikachu, his weapon would be...

No, scrap that, Pikachu doesn't need a weapon if his face is one.

Haha... ;D

Look it's Pikachu....

*Silence.....*

RUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Arab RPG-armed Camera man and US troops runs away*

[Egeides]

Maybe next time a terrorist will disguise as a journalist? Sure, but here it seems NON-WESTERN journalists are shot, others less... So much that it is dangerous to be a NON-WESTERN journalist in Palestine.

Since they are shot so often, does it mean they are seen as terrorist while it's not the case for western journalists, and that it happens THAT often?

[SurlyPIG]

Egeides, the journalist this thread is referring to was white and western. And did it occur to you that there are probably more Arab journalists in Iraq than western journalists? Iraq is an Arab country after all...

Common sense is a virtue (but not all that common).

[ordos45]

This guys is the 27th journalist to be killed in this war and he isn't the first to be killed by US troops. I don't see why this is topic-worthy. I feel badly for his family and co-workers of course but I'm surprised this was given it's own topic, especially considering the recent bombing of the UN building...shouldn't it be in the Iraq Issues thread?

Probably its because he was a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.

[SurlyPIG]

And that makes his life and his death more important than the other 26?

[ordos45]

I don't feel so. But possibly it does to others, or maybe it was because he was filming at the time, or that he was killed after the end of combat?

[SurlyPIG]

After what end of combat? Combat never ends in war, it just waits for later. Maybe you're right about the filming thing though.

[ordos45]

Thanks, by end of combat I was referring to the supposed end of major combat operations. Despite the fact that the casualties are higher now than before for troops.

[Dude_Doc]

Did anyone else think it was a little bit odd about the whole UN-HQ attack news? I mean, it's like 9/11 or something, when around 16 people died. Or am I missing something? (Well, yes I know a high-up guy in the UN died, but more than that?)