Posted on 11/18/2004 10:36:21 AM PST by slowhand520
It's a start...
If these embeds stray from their assigned units and by doing so put our troops at risk, the "reporters" are ON THEIR OWN as far as I'm concerned. Kevin Sites is lucky to be alive after what he did.
Somebody better advise Al-Reuters that the lens of a TV camera looks just like the lens of an enemy sniper rifle in a street battle, when split-second shoot or no shoot decisions must be made.
These Roto-Reuters expect our brave soldiers to fight this war, protect the embeds, and then take it up the wahzoo like this? They don't know our soldiers, or US, very well - do they? They say what goes around, comes around. Just ask the liberal dumbocrats.
They shouldn't be in the middle of a shootin' war.
Why can't they just stay at their desks in NYC and make stuff up. That's what everybody else does.
There is plenty of understanding regarding the the exercise of journalism.
That's why, from now on, you're a target.
The headline says two things.
1. The righter kant spel.
2. The writer can't cut and paste.
"Rueters blames employees deaths in Iraq on US soldiers"
And who is "Drude"
"Developing on Drude."
If you hit the abuse button on yourself, and ask nice, the AM will probably fix the headline for you.
No, they look more like a shoulder fired anti-tank rocket.
"Always doubletap...anything worth shooting once is worth shooting twice!" :D
Sounds like a good plan.
Funny, since most Reuters reporters work for the Mossad.
Dhia Najim, a 57-year-old freelance video cameraman, was apparently shot dead by a sniper while on assignment for the London-based Reuters news agency, a Reuters correspondent in Baghdad said.
For its part, the US military confirmed that a cameraman working for a "major news agency" had been caught in clashes between US troops and rebel fighters.
"Marines from the 1st Marine Division of the I Marine
Expeditionary Force engaged several insurgents in a brief small-arms firefight that killed an individual who was carrying a video camera earlier Monday morning," it said in a statement.
The video camera found on Najim showed pictures of previous attacks on US-led troops, the military added.
"Inspection of videotape in the camera revealed footage of previous attacks on Multi-National Force military vehicles that included the insurgent use of RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), an IED (roadside bomb) and small arms fire."
Depending on range, angle, cover etc. I'm just generally referring to the glint of a lens peeking over a wall 1000 yards away, in a zone with no friendlies. Our snipers are going to fire very fast, before the "enemy sniper" can kill an American. If the "enemy sniper" turns out to be an Al-Reuters cameraman, too frikkin bad, boo hoo.
Great catch!
Mat Drudge is a druid?
--Boot Hill
Da_n right! Why do we tolerate these creeps? Have we become such a p.c. nation that we can't even prosecute collaborators and traitors?
We told you, this is a war on all terrorists.
--Boot Hill
Says this.......
Reuters chief: US 'to blame' for journalist deaths...
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