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Old 08-17-2003, 08:56 PM  
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Grenade launching camera

not sure if there's already a thread on this, but i had to post it...

sad.

Award-winning journalist Mazen Dana dies after U.S. troops mistake his camera for a grenade-launcher.

"Army soldiers engaged an individual they thought was aiming an RPG at them. It turned out to be a Reuters cameraman," navy captain Frank Thorp, a spokesman for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Reuters in Washington."

"His last pictures show a U.S. tank driving towards Dana outside the prison walls. Several shots ring out from the tank, and Dana's camera falls to the ground."

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/me...eut/index.html
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