Report: AP Cameraman, Carrying Rifle, Killed in Iraq Opposing Al-Qaeda

[maddezmom]

Source: Editor and Publisher

Report: AP Cameraman, Carrying Rifle, Killed in Iraq Opposing Al-Qaeda

By Greg Mitchell

Published: June 01, 2007 11:15 PM ET

NEW YORK Jane Arraf, the well-known CNN and NBC correspondent now writing for the popular Web site, IraqSlogger, reveals tonight that the brothers of the Associated Press cameraman killed in Baghdad on Thursday say that he was carrying a rifle in trying to hold off al-Qaeda militants in his neighborhood.

A picture of the photographer, taken by Arraf, also appears on the front page of the site, being treated in vain by a U.S. Army medic. Other pictures show brothers of the slain man -- also journalsits -- grieving, along with his coffin.

Arraf has been embedded with the Army "Stryker" unit.

The subhed on the article states: "Off-Duty, Armed APTN Cameraman Dies a Hero Defending his Neighborhood."

Her report, which was held up for a time due to embedding rules, opens as follows. The entire story is available at www.iraqslogger.com.



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[ohio2007]

1. Al-Qaeda 'fighters' will kill a journalist doing his job given half a chance

jounalists get killed or worse,captured first then killed in Iraq.
The guy wasn't going out armed only with a pen.



http://www.iraqslogger.com/
imo, he knows who are the worst of the bad guys.