"The Americans opened fire when I took out my camera to film" - News24

[dArKeR]

Iraq - US soldiers fired on a car on Thursday belonging to the American news agency Associated Press when its reporters tried to film an ambushed convoy in this town west of Baghdad, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1418430,00.html

[Sequoia]

1. No one is safe I guess

are those troops on drugs? What gives?

[DuctapeFatwa]

2. What is the total number of reporters who have been liberated? 17?

This particular incident is probably because the number of Crusader casualties is larger than the authorized release number, and film of it could erode support for the regime.

[bahrbearian]

3. You mean Liberated by death???

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Iraqis and reporters are liberated, Crusaders are welcomed

Don't think of it as death, that might erode support for the regime's war on terror.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

4. shooting at cameramen must be a Rummy 'order'

sick.

Soldiers are tense, afraid, stressed out.

When they see news reporters start to DARE take
photos of their dead & dying comrades --

THEY ARE GOING TO GET HOSTILE.