Oscar Nominated Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer Reportedly Killed In Libya

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: Business Insider

This is terrible news. And important to note the details are still sketchy.

But there are reports that photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros have been killed in Libya.

The news was first posted on fellow photographer Andre Liohn's Facebook page. Liohn is reportedly at the hospital and later updated his status in the comments to say that Hondros has died.

Hetherington was nominated for a Oscar this year for the documentary Restrepo which he co-directed with journalist Sebastian Junger. Chris Hondros is a Pulitzer-Prize nominated war photographer whose work has appeared in the NYT, Newsweek, and the Economist, to name a few.



Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-hetherington-oscar-libya-restrepo-2011-4

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BBCWorld BBC Global News
BBC can confirm one western journalist has been killed and three injured in a mortar attack in city of #Benghazi #libya
48 seconds ago

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. From Vanity Fair.. Uncertain Status of Vanity Fair Photographer Tim Hetherington in Libya

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/photographer-tim-hetherington-libya.html

We are monitoring the situation but there are unconfirmed reports now on Twitter and Facebook that Vanity Fair contributing photographer Tim Hetherington, on a personal project in Libya, has been injured or killed in Misrata, Libya, along with three colleagues. We will update as we know more.

British-born Hetherington, 41, has covered conflict extensively over the last decade, winning the coveted World Press Photo Award in 2007 for his coverage of American soldiers in Afghanistan for the magazine. That work also served as the basis of the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo, which he directed with Vanity Fair contributor Sebastian Junger, author of the book The Perfect Storm. Hetherington, a sometime filmmaker, is also the author of the recently released book, Infidel.

[tabatha]

2. BBC Breaking News

BBCBreaking BBC Breaking News
CORRECTION: One western journalist has been killed and three injured in a mortar attack in the city of #Misrata #Libya


Last tweet:
@TimHetherington Tim Hetherington
In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO.
https://twitter.com/#!/TimHetherington/status/60293090983940096


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/tim-hetherington-chris-hondros-killed-libya_n_851558.html?ref=fb&src=sp

[femrap]

3. Would someone

simply go pick Qaddfi up and out of Libya like one picks fleas from a dog.

This is simply asinine. Hell, our Intelligence knows where he lives....all those big palaces are his, you know.

This is just 'War for the sake of War.' And while TPTB are at it, they'll get rid of all the Truthful Journalists while they're at it.

I'm sick of it.

Pathetic.

As far as I can tell, TPTB are setting this up to be WW3. They want extremists in power in the MENA so we can have 'The New Crusades.'

Getting Qaddfi simply can't be that difficult. Obviously that's not what TPTB want.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. What they want is the oil fields and ports.

keeping Libya "destabilized" is part of the playbook.
Same playbook used in Iraq, in Afghanistan and being tried in Pakistan.

Yemen is also a crucial area:
from last year:
For some months the world has seen a steady escalation of US military involvement in Yemen, a dismally poor land adjacent to Saudi Arabia on its north, the Red Sea on its west, the Gulf of Aden on its south, opening to the Arabian Sea, overlooking another desolate land that has been in the headlines of late, Somalia. The evidence suggests that the Pentagon and US intelligence are moving to militarize a strategic chokepoint for the world’s oil flows, Bab el-Mandab, and using the Somalia piracy incident, together with claims of a new Al Qaeda threat arising from Yemen, to militarize one of the world’s most important oil transport routes. In addition, undeveloped petroleum reserves in the territory between Yemen and Saudi Arabia are reportedly among the world’s largest.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article16248.html

Now Yemen is being destabilized, too.

"Behind the scenes, the US is increasingly leaning on Saleh to encourage him to step down. The White House has reportedly called his position untenable and pushed for his departure.

And the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that the United States froze a record $1bn aid package for Yemen shortly after the protests began. The deal would have included not only "counterterrorism assistance," which Saleh has reportedly used to bankroll his campaigns against Houthi rebels in the north and separatists in the south, but also development aid, which Saleh points to as one of the benefits of his unpopular relationship with Washington."

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/2011418193643493286.html

Much as I cheer the idea of "popular, pro-democratic" uprisings in the ME, I fear there is a concerted hidden agenda behind them.

[sabrina 1]

6. Couldn't agree more and I wish people would not be jumping

on the 'war' bandwagon. It seems we've learned nothing from Iraq.

[Sonoman]

8. There are no coincidences.

This whole MENA 'Popular Uprising" thing is crap.

I have been crucified here for having the temerity to suggest that all of this has been highly coordinated.

Sonoman

[sabrina 1]

5. Getting Qaddafi would turn this into an all out war and maybe

even a regional war. Americans simply do not understand the region and their solution, as in Iraq, is always 'let's kill their leaders'.

Maybe it would have been better to have stayed out of it altogether. The fact is, like it or not, apparently a majority of the Libyan people WANT Qaddafi as their leader. So that being the case, what possible reason is there for the U.S. to interfere in yet another country's affairs?

The Libyan people who support him will continue to fight, and more will most likely join that fight, just like Iraq, if outside forces assassinate their leader. They have said from the start, including the rebels, that they do not want foreign interference. Could we, just once, leave people to resolve their own problems and maybe, start worrying about our own for a change?

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Could we, just once, leave people to resolve their own problems?

Sure, if there is no money/oil/minerals/resources involved.
Just like Walker is doing now, letting the people of Michigan worry how to resolve their problems
after he strips the state of all services and jobs and money.