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docwebsterUS sniper kills Reuters soundman in Iraq
US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said the incident was unfortunate but stopped short of apologising.
"This is unfortunate... but sometimes mistakes are made. We don't target civilians," he said when questioned by reporters covering the finalisation of Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein constitution.
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They said that Khaled was still alive when they reached him, and that US troops refused to give him water despite the blazing sun.
"They (US soldiers) treated us like dogs. They made us... including Khaled who was wounded and asking for water, stay in the sun on the road," Reuters quoted a television crew member Mohammed Idriss as saying.
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After a brief inspection of the car in which Reuters team travelled, US troops allowed Reuters staff and the dead man's family to have it towed away. They handed them a military body bag to remove the corpse, Reuters said.
"As Waleed's tearful relatives inspected the body at the scene, a US soldier said: 'Don't bother. It's not worth it'. A few other soldiers joked among themselves just a few meters (feet) from the body", it added.
US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said the incident was unfortunate but stopped short of apologising.
"This is unfortunate... but sometimes mistakes are made. We don't target civilians," he said when questioned by reporters covering the finalisation of Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein constitution.
(snip)
They said that Khaled was still alive when they reached him, and that US troops refused to give him water despite the blazing sun.
"They (US soldiers) treated us like dogs. They made us... including Khaled who was wounded and asking for water, stay in the sun on the road," Reuters quoted a television crew member Mohammed Idriss as saying.
(snip)
After a brief inspection of the car in which Reuters team travelled, US troops allowed Reuters staff and the dead man's family to have it towed away. They handed them a military body bag to remove the corpse, Reuters said.
"As Waleed's tearful relatives inspected the body at the scene, a US soldier said: 'Don't bother. It's not worth it'. A few other soldiers joked among themselves just a few meters (feet) from the body", it added.
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Date: 2005-08-28 11:28 pm (UTC)23,000 people is a damned big omelet.
I remember when, at the begining of the war, the army near enough threatened non-embedded journalists with bombing.
Note also how they say the "bulk" of journalist killings were by (or caused by the actions of, which sounds sketchy itself) insurgents, but they won't give us a number. From this, we're expected to assume this was the first time.