Two CNN Employees Killed in Iraq

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A driver and a translator-producer working for CNN were shot and killed Tuesday by unidentified assailants outside Baghdad, the network said.

CNN said in a news broadcast that the pair was returning from an assignment in southern Iraq (news - web sites) in a two-car convoy that came under attack in the outskirts of the capital.

It identified the two men as translator-producer Dureid Issa Mohammed and driver Yasser Khateeb.

A CNN cameraman in the second car was grazed in the head by a bullet but was safe, the network said. It said correspondent Michael Holmes was also in the car along with several other people but none of them was hurt.

It gave no other details.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_cnn&cid=540&ncid=1480

[undergroundrailroad]

1. Very sad. I found this on Reuters.

Two CNN employees killed in Iraq ambush
Tue 27 January, 2004 17:17

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two CNN employees have been killed in an ambush in Iraq, the international television news organisation says.

"Two of our colleagues were killed in an ambush on the outskirts of Baghdad," a presenter said on air. One was a driver and the other a translator/producer.

"They were returning to Baghdad in a two-car convoy from an assignment in the south when assailants opened fire. One of our cameramen...who was in the other vehicle was grazed in the head by a bullet. He has been treated."

No one else was hurt.

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[Democrats unite]

2. Did they say something against Bush?

eom

[lovedems]

3. Yes, 2 of our employees were killed in Iraq

but everything is still honkey-dorey!

Sad, sad day.

[UpInArms]

4. will CNN continue to report the

improved situation in Iraq?

I guess they could threaten their spokespeople with an Iraqi assignment if they use the wrong phrases.

[kskiska]

5. They keep saying that Baghdad is safer than any

U.S. city.

[LiberalFighter]

11. Does that mean more than 2 would get killed on a regular basis in Ft Wayne

in broad daylight?

[uncle ray]

6. i wonder if its to be a wake up call for journalists in iraq

to start reporting how things are REALLY going on over there? i'm sure in bush*s iraq that "the insurgents" have plenty of access to american news, and see how little credit they are getting for fucking up bush*s plans. they want the media to take notice and start doing their jobs as much as we do.

[mike1963]

7. Sorry to hear this, will they reconsider being cheerleaders for Chimpy's

illegal invasion I wonder?

[qb]

8. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

I mean no disrespect to the dead, but if CNN hadn't whored so mightily for this war, they'd probably still be alive.

[JNelson6563]

9. My heart goes out to the families.

More wasted lives courtesy of Bush Inc.

Julie

[MaineDem]

10. But by whom?

Sad indeed...every death is.