U.S. holds Reuters staff near helicopter crash in Falluja

[NV1962]

(Source: eTaiwanNews)

• U.S. holds Reuters staff near helicopter crash in Falluja

  
  2004-01-04 / Reuters
  American soldiers on Friday detained three Iraqis working for Reuters as they covered the aftermath of a U.S. helicopter crash near the volatile town of Falluja.
  
  A Reuters driver who was working with the three said they had earlier been fired on by U.S. troops as they filmed a checkpoint close to the site where a Kiowa observation helicopter was shot down by guerrillas.
  
  One pilot was killed and another injured in the crash.
  
  "We were fired on and we drove away at high speed," driver Alaa Noury said. He said Reuters cameraman Salem Uraiby had been filming the checkpoint using a camera on a tripod, and had been wearing a flak jacket clearly marked with the word "press."
  
  Noury said a second car driven by another Iraqi journalist had been fired upon in the same incident.
  
  EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

Comment: looks like Reuters will be giving "embedded journalists" a second thought now...

Edited to correct spelling of the source site... :eyes:

[RC]

1. every one in Iraq with

brown skin and black hair is a terrorist to the coalition.:eyes:

[Just Me]

2. That is HUGELY at odds with the initial reports by military spokesman.

Yikes!!! I realize that people may experience two very different forms of reality but, WOW,...these are totally conflicting reports.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I've been watching this since first reported...

They'll probably hold them until most folks forget about the incident and then let them go.

This is sickening, the lies.

[NV1962]

4. Yup, got this from a Spanish newspaper site

On El Mundo, the headline is The US Army detains three Reuters employees in Fallujah and alledges that they're insurgents (my italicized emphasis)

I found the eTaiwanNews article (which I posted as it is a Reuters sourced) by googling the rather unique driver's name, like this.

It's surely not picked up in the same questioning manner as that Spanish article does!

[NV1962]

5. Seattle Times picks up on the controversy

Just found this one, titled "Copter downed in Iraq, killing GI; Army, journalists dispute incident"

[pinto]

6. thks for the post NV1962, lots of loose ends in this one...

5 men "wearing press jackets" - Kimmitt
Reuters says camera team on site - Reuters
3 men detained and Reuters notified of staff arrests - US military
4 "enemy personnel arrested" - Kimmitt
1 reporter returned with footage to Baghdad - Noury

Hope Reuters files any footage or f/u they may have, if possible.

thks, again

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. kick

:kick:

[Just Me]

8. I wonder if they are called "POWs" or same as Gitmo prisoners,

,...who are called "unlawful combatants" or like US citizens being detained without due process are called "enemy combatants".

[Moderator]

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