IRAQ: EMPLOYEES OF DUBAI BASED SATELLITE TV CHANNEL AL-ARABIYA MOURN DEATH OF TWO COLLEAGUES KILLED BY U.S. FORCES IN BAGHDAD

Record ID: 649241

  • Title: IRAQ: EMPLOYEES OF DUBAI BASED SATELLITE TV CHANNEL AL-ARABIYA MOURN DEATH OF TWO COLLEAGUES KILLED BY U.S. FORCES IN BAGHDAD
  • Date: 19th March 2004
  • Summary: (W3)BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MARCH 18, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY HOSPITAL IN BAGHDAD 0.03 2. SIGN READING "NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY HOSPITAL" 0.07 3. EMPLOYEES OF AL-ARABIYA CONSOLING EACH OTHER 0.14 4. HEAD OF AL-ARABIYA OFFICE IN BAGHDAD, WIHAD YAQOUB, CRYING 0.21 5. SV/CU: BODY OF AL-ARABIYA CORRESPONDENT, ALI AL-KHATIB, ON STRETCHER AT HOSPITAL MORGUE (2 SHOTS) 0.36 6. TWO AL-ARABIYA EMPLOYEES COMFORTING EACH OTHER (2 SHOTS) 0.48 7. TWO MEN CARRYING EMPTY COFFIN 1.00 8. TWO MEN TRYING TO COMFORT Al-KHATIB'S BROTHER 1.12 9. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HEAD OF Al-ARABIYA OFFICE IN BAGHDAD, WIHAD YAQOUB, SAYING: "They (U.S. forces) arrested him four times and they beat him once and they opened fire on him once, but they did not mean to kill him, just to provoke him. But yesterday they shot at him deliberately to kill him." 1.37 10. Al-ARABIYA EMPLOYEES AT HOSPITAL 1.43 11. CAMERA OPERATORS AT HOSPITAL 1.48 12. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic), ABDUL HUSSEIN AL-KHATIB, KHATIB'S FATHER, SAYING: "It is a heinous crime that runs counter to all laws and conventions. It is supposed that journalism has immunity." 2.01 13. MEN CONSOLING EACH OTHER 2.09 14. TWO MEN TALKING 2.17 15. KHATIB'S BODY TAKEN OUT OF MORGUE, COVERED WITH IRAQI FLAG; AND PUT INTO COFFIN (2 SHOTS) 2.33 16. VARIOUS OF MEN CARRYING COFFIN AWAY, COFFIN PUT ONTO TRUCK; TRUCK LEAVING MORGUE (5 SHOTS) 3.28 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAELM98HW0N0BFBJ6QX9J5ID5X7
  • Story Text: Al-Arabiya employees mourn the death of two of their
    colleagues, killed by U.S. forces on Thursday.


    Employees of Dubai-based satellite television channel
    Al-Arabiya mourned on Friday (March 19) the death
    of two of their colleagues who were killed by U.S. forces
    on Thursday (March 18).

    Al-Arabiya's Cameraman Ali Abdelaziz and correspondent
    Ali al-Khatib, both Iraqis, were shot by the U.S. forces as
    they were covering a rocket attack on Burj al-Hayat hotel
    in the capital on Thursday night.

    Al Arabiya employees said the Iraqis were driving in
    central Baghdad when another car drove through a U.S.

    checkpoint. They said U.S. troops then opened fire on both
    cars.

    The cameraman died on the spot and the correspondent
    died on Friday morning from gun wounds he suffered.

    Doctors initially said on Thursday both Al Arabiya
    employees had been killed, but later said one of them was
    critically wounded with a gunshot wound to the head.

    A U.S. military spokesman said troops had shot dead one
    Iraqi after his car ran through a checkpoint and hit a
    Humvee. The spokesman said the Iraqi was the only person in
    the car, and he had no information about whether any
    journalists were killed or wounded in the incident.

    Before Thursday's incident, four journalists had been
    killed by U.S. troops since the start of the war in Iraq a
    year ago.

    Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a Ukranian, and
    cameraman Jose Couso of Spanish television channel Tele 5
    were killed on April 8 last year when a U.S. tank fired a
    shell at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where most foreign
    media in the city were staying during the U.S.-led
    invasion.

    Tarek Ayoub, a producer and correspondent for Al
    Jazeera television, was killed in a U.S. air raid in
    Baghdad the same day.

    On August 17, award-winning Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana, a
    Palesti
    nian, was shot dead by a U.S. soldier
    outside Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad. The U.S. army
    said the soldier mistook Dana's camera for a
    rocket-propelled grenade launcher.


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