Posted on 05/18/2007 9:02:50 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
BAGHDAD - Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News in Baghdad were ambushed and killed as they drove home from work, the television network announced Friday.
The attack took place Thursday afternoon, when two cars filled with gunmen stopped the car carrying cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, 26, ABC said in a statement posted on its Web site. The gunmen then forced the two journalists to get out of the car, the statement said.
The death of the men was only confirmed Friday morning, the statement said.
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why would the kill someone that is on their side?
Sorry to hear that.
Any journalist (any) shows a lot of guts going over there and trying to report the story.
Our military families deal with ever day - it’s horrible.
Two more lives lost - two families struck with tragedy.
Shame.
Baghdad is a war zone.
i was gonna make a crack about “friendly fire.”
Because Allah told them to in the Qur'an...It's in there somewhere between having sex with underage girls and stoning rape victims.
Any journalist (any) shows a lot of guts going over there and trying to report the story.
It looks like they were natives not that it makes any difference?
No Terry Moran? Crap.
RIP
God be with their families. This is a war zone. Be careful.
Biting my tongue...
Natives - yes - I just saw that.
Iraqi reporters - a new concept no doubt - thanks to us.
Friendly Fire?
Misunderstanding, I would say. Just because you are on their side doesn’t mean that the terrorists won’t kill you.
Prayers to the family!
ABC has no journalists. The deceased were propagandists
It sounds like McCarthy is *admitting* that network news crews have no idea what is going on outside their hotels and pressers - as has long been suspected. What reporting comes from American networks, it seems, the conclusion has been drawn first and then fact-finded later rather than the opposite.
It's a shame about these two men but ABC is essentially saying they have no coverage outside the Green Zone without depending on Iraqi journalists.
I always thought that the longer this war went on, the greater the chance that the insurgents would penetrate the News Media through the use of local "stringers". Imagine if the landings at Normandy were reported by a bunch of Fritz's & Adolph's who were working for Herr Goebbels?
They should have captured them & made them convert to Islam - like Steve Centani of FOX. Guess what gang, he has never taken that back. So in reality he's a Muslim.
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