CNN REPORTER/PRODUCER KILLED IN IRAQ

msnbc | 1-27-04 | DFU

[doug from upland]

Breaking news from Baghdad. CNN producer/reported has been killed. No confirmation yet on the nature of the attack.

[Mears]

Oh,oh!!!!!

[Mo1]

PING

[Sam's Army]

Any word on who?

And of course, it will be Bush's fault

[angkor]

CNN doesn't have it yet.

[HAL9000]

Two CNN Employees Killed in Iraq

Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A driver and a translator-producer working for CNN were shot and killed Tuesday by unidentified assailants outside Baghdad, the network said.

CNN said in a news broadcast that the pair was returning from an assignment in southern Iraq in a two-car convoy that came under attack in the outskirts of the capital.

It identified the two men as translator-producer Dureid Issa Mohammed and driver Yasser Khateeb.

A CNN cameraman in the second car was grazed in the head by a bullet but was safe, the network said. It said correspondent Michael Holmes was also in the car along with several other people but none of them was hurt.

It gave no other details.

[OldFriend]

A translator and a driver. Two car caravan came under attack.

[null and void]

They're killing their friends, now?

[unixfox]

I wonder if CNN will now want to go after the terrorists or tuck tail and run.

[TommyDale]

I'm waiting for someone on the left to say it was either Bush's fault, or an ambush by Fox News.

[OXENinFLA]

F'N Cowards!

[blackdog]

CNN will take a poll first, then decide how to best deal with the situation.

Prayers to those killed and their families.

I bet on CNN digging in their heels.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

F'N Cowards!

How are people who get killed in am ambush F'N Cowards?

[MCRD]

Have the U S Marines landed already, must have missed that story.

[OXENinFLA]

I was talking about the shooter not those killed.

[OXENinFLA]

shooters

[pgkdan]

How are people who get killed in am ambush F'N Cowards?

I think he meant the killers.

[jpl]

I'll bet CNN won't refer to these uncivilized animals as terrorists even though it was their own guys that were killed.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Sorry, I am just so used to everyone saying that journalists are scum that I assumed the worst.

My apologies.

[null and void]

And of course, it will be Bush's fault

Well DUH! It was an amBUSH...