UK's ITV says its reporter missing in Iraq is dead

Reuters | Sunday, March 23, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

UK's ITV says its reporter missing in Iraq is dead

LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - British TV company ITN said on Sunday its veteran correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed, having gone missing under fire in Iraq on Saturday, while the fate of his two colleagues remained unknown.

"ITN has received sufficient evidence to believe that ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in an incident on the southern Iraq front war front yesterday," ITN said in a statement.

"We believe his body to be in Basra hospital, which is still under Iraqi control. Two members of his team -- Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman -- are still missing and ITN so far has no information on their whereabouts or condition."

Lloyd and his television crew went missing on Saturday after coming under fire, possibly from British artillery.

The crew, which unlike most journalists covering the war was unattached to any U.S. or British unit, had come under fire near Basra, while driving towards the port city in two vehicles.

[JohnHuang2]

Sunday, March 23, 2003

Quote of the Day by Erasmus

[ambrose]

The crew, which unlike most journalists covering the war was unattached to any U.S. or British unit, had come under fire near Basra, while driving towards the port city in two vehicles.

Unwise.

[dvwjr]

Looks like the ITN reporter was not the only "free-range" reporter who has found out that life without the help and support of the US or British military is both foolish and dangerous.

See this link: Newsweek

dvwjr

[litany_of_lies]

It will be interesting to see if their bosses sitting in their comfortable offices rethink their strategy of defiance in going the "non-embedded" route.

It will also be interesting to see whether the deceased's families will be able to financially ruin them for putting their loved ones into assignments designed to place them in harm's way. Don't tell me that some of the dead and injured reporters didn't feel pressure from the top to go in unembedded for the sake of their careers.

[God is good]

Ok, we all want to be good humanitarians, but now is the time to take off the gloves. Our first responsibility is to the American people and our troops, not the Iraqi people. And besides the Iraqi armed forces are not civilians and should not be treated as such.