You gotta watch out. Them Palestinians are on hair triggers. They're always going off.
Posted on 09/12/2004 3:55:33 PM PDT by Flavius
A PALESTINIAN television journalist was killed today as he was giving a live report to camera on deadly clashes between US forces and insurgents in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
Residents of his home town in the West Bank watched in horror as Mazen al-Tomaisi, who worked for Saudi television Akhbariya and for the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, went down.
Mr Tomaisi, 28, was killed when a US helicopter fired missiles on a mob which had gathered round a US tank in Baghdad that had been set ablaze in a car bomb attack, one of a string of bombings across the capital today.
Blood spattered across the cameraman's lens and screams were heard by viewers of the Al-Arabiya report.
Mr Tomaisi, from the West Bank town of Idna, is the fourth Palestinian journalist killed in Iraq.
An Iraqi cameraman and an Iraqi photographer were also slightly wounded by flying shrapnel during the attack.
An Iraqi official later said a total of 13 people were killed, including two children, and 55 were wounded during the battle in Haifa Street, a suspected bastion of Saddam Hussein loyalists, where insurgents and US troops clash regularly.
The US military said four soldiers were also wounded.
Sorry to interrupt their celebration....
Shoulda Hellfired the vehicle...
Is there any video or pics anyone has seen?
You gotta watch out. Them Palestinians are on hair triggers. They're always going off.
That's what happens when you get in the middle of our guys defending themselves. I have zero sympathy for this guy.
oops...now weve done it
It sounds like they were having a block party around a disabled US tank when the helicopter got 'em. Good shooting, bad PR; saving our guys comes first.
Now that's what I call "MUST SEE TV"!!!
(insert evil chuckle here.)
I'm sorry this guy was where he didn't belong and got killed.
But standing in the midst of the enemy during combat was foolish.
And frankly, I care a lot more about our four G.Is. than about any foreign 'journalist'.
ping
yes
Mr Tomaisi finds out what it's like to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Video? Pics?
Would make sense I suppose.
A lot of equipment in there that should not be in the hands of the enemy.
So, this report indicts the helicopter crew as war criminals. Nothing new from the media. Spin it.
Good shooting. Maybe the IDF will follow the example.
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He got killed at work, just like the victims of 9/11.
how can we get our rocking throwing friends, the palestenians, to give us video?
URL, please
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