Monday, September 13, 2004

My Sympathy is Limited

Drudge has a headline link, with the following verbiage, to draw you in.

“TV Reporter Killed by US Fire During Live Baghdad Broadcast."

The link, takes you to Netscape/CNN report on the incident. The article, assumes that the reporter was killed by U.S. fire, though I doubt in the chaotic moments one could be certain, unless a autopsy was performed which could definitively show that U.S. weapons were responsible for the reporters death.

Additionally, within the news report, we read this.

” Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control.

At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone. Many of them died when a U.S. helicopter fired on a disabled U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle as Iraqis swarmed around it, cheering, throwing stones and waving the black and yellow sunburst banner of Iraq’s most-feared terror organization.

The dead from the helicopter strike included Arab television reporter Mazen al-Tumeizi, who screamed, “I’m dying, I’m dying,’’ as a cameraman recorded the chaotic scene. An Iraqi cameraman working for the Reuters news agency and an Iraqi freelance photographer for Getty Images were wounded.

Maimed and lifeless bodies of young men and boys lay in the street as the stricken U.S. vehicle was engulfed in flames and thick black smoke."

Pay attention to that second paragraph, and consider, if any rational individuals would be “swarming” over a recently destroyed military vehicle, during a fire fight.

Posted by John Venlet on 09/13 at 05:43 AM
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