Al Jazeera staffer killed in Libya

[shireen]

Source: Al Jazeera

An Al Jazeera cameraman has been killed in what appears to have been an ambush near the rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya.

Ali Hassan Al Jaber was returning to Benghazi from a nearby town after filing a report from an opposition protest when unknown fighters opened fire on a car he and his colleagues were travelling in.


Two people including Al Jaber were shot. Al Jaber was rushed to hospital, but did not survive.

Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley, reporting from Benghazi, said Al Jaber was hit by three shots and was wounded through the heart.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/03/2011312192359523376.html

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Lost in the barrage of news from Japan ... another journalist killed while covering the historical events in Libya.

:cry:

[denem]

1. Rest in peace Ali Hassan. n/t.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Dup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=625462&mesg_id=625462

[Turborama]

7. No it is not. This is the first time it has been posted in Latest Breaking News

Thanks a lot for the link to pinboy3niner' OP, though.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Oh, crap.

Have we now invaded Libya, too?

[Posteritatis]

10. How the hell are you getting that from the article? (nt)

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. The first thing we do when we invade is start offing the local

AJ staff.

I really didn't think a :sarcasm: tag was necessary.

[EFerrari]

4. I hit the wrong link and unrec'd this by accident.

My condolences to his colleagues on the ground. So terrible. :(

[RainDog]

5. what a brave soul. n/t

[Turborama]

6. Banner of condolence from the people of Benghazi

It reads: "Here and now, Libyan and Qatari blood is mixed for the sake of freedom. Our condolences go to the Qatari people and the Al Jazeera channel' read a banner held in Benghazi"

[pinboy3niner]

8. K&R

[shireen]

9. you can leave a message of condolence at their feedback link above the article. nt

[Salander]

12. These are real, not embedded, journalists. They are always in danger. . .

of attack from the powers that be. Here they are murdered by pro Qadhafi forces. In Iraq they were murdered by pro Bush forces.