I hope it was “friendly” fire. UPDATE: Reuters story below.
The cameraman and reporter suffered minor injuries when he was shot while covering a firefight for CBS in Mosul, CBS News said. It asked that the man’s name not be reported for his protection.
The U.S. military said in a statement from Mosul released at the Pentagon that U.S. soldiers had been involved in an engagement with at least one suspected insurgent who was “waving an AK-47 (assault rifle) and inciting a crowd of civilians.”
During the incident, “an individual that appeared to have a weapon who was standing near the insurgent was shot and injured. This individual turned out to be a reporter who was pointing a video camera,” the military statement said.
“Regretfully, the reporter was injured during the complex and volatile situation,” the military said, adding that the incident was under investigation.
The suspected insurgent was killed, …
The man … from Mosul, was taken to a U.S. military hospital where he was treated for what the military said were minor wounds [and is] expected to make a full recovery.
What a horrible vindication of Eason Jordan.
It would be a vindication if he’d really said it.
He didn’t.
The Republicans just lied about it.
C’mon he works for CNN and you expect him to say things like “Our troops murder journalists”? He said that they had shot journalists (accidentally).
http://www.rsf.org (Reporters without Borders) maintains a list of members of the press who have been honored as recipients of US friendliness.
The site is down today.
RSF is a great group. I’m on their mailing list. Btw, I still can’t find any wire stories on the shooting but CNN has repeated the story, with no additional details. (It was probably an Iraqi contracted by CBS, so it’s no big deal. Snark.)
was standing next to a man with a gun who was making remarks critical of US policies. (MSNBC, or Fox, whichever, refers to this activity as “inciting the crowd.”) US gunmen murdered the man making the remarks and apparently their story is that they thought the CBS guy’s camera was a gun, so they attempted to murder him, too, but failed.
Seems like I’ve heard that excuse before..that a camera was a gun.
and I think I should have added that if our military can’t tell the difference between cameras and guns from presumably not that far a distance than we’re in even deeper shit than I thought.
there is no difference between a camera and a gun.
I guess the new slogan will be ‘guns don’t kill people-camera’s do’.
Did either of you catch Democracy Now! on March 23? Here are the exerpt links:
This’d make a great diary for someone.
No, I didn’t but that was another really horrible fuck-up. I know I remember thinking at the time that it just seemed rather bizarre and awful.
it should be back in a little while.
Friendly to whom is the question.
http://dailywarnews.blogspot.com/ Another attack on Abu Ghrahib today and prison riot at Camp Bucca. Reading this everyday is always pretty awful. No mention of a reporter on dailywarnews yet.