Isn't it ironic that a British journalist was murdered in Iraq by American bullets and at the same time?

Question

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are currently filming a full length film about the murder of the US journalist, Daniel Pearl

The British journalist was called Terry Lloyd and was shot at by Americans while in an ambulance in the early days of the Iraq war.

They opened fire on a f*****g ambulance. Isn't that murder

Answer 1

dhwtaz, I've done my homework! The journalist in question, Terry Lloyd, worked for ITN in the UK. He and his colleagues were in a Kuwaiti registered vehicle that was clearly marked as being a 'Press' car. The official version of the incident is that the vehicle was caught in crossfire between Iraqi and American troops; the real version is now coming out due to an inquest being conducted here in the UK.

Mr Lloyd and his companions had been attacked by some Iraqi troops in a pickup truck, during this attack Mr Lloyd had been wounded. He remained in his own Press car, which was forced to drive ahead of the Iraqi vehicle and another vehicle into which two of his colleagues had been forced at gunpoint. This 'convoy' then came into contact with a US Abrams tank and there was 'an exchange of fire' between the pickup and the tank - there is strong evidence to suggest that the tank engaged the vehicles first. The heavy automatic weapons on the tank destroyed both the pickup, the marked Press car and the remaining vehicle. Both Mr Lloyd and the driver of the press car, another journalist, escaped from the car; Mr Lloyd was helped to a minibus that pulled up shortly after the firing had stopped and it was in this vehicle, which was taking the injured for medical help, he was killed when the tank opened fire again.

His colleague had managed to take shelter in a ditch by the side of the road. He attempted to signal to the US tank crew, and stood up with his hands held in the air, but had to dive back into the ditch when they opened fire again; the tank was approximately 100-200 yards from the vehicles and the ditch.

The sources I have listed below are respectable British news sources. I did try very hard to find a US source to list as well but, shamefully, the media on that side of the Atlantic has chosen to ignore this story!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Journalists in Iraq is one of the biggest enemies the US soldiers face there. There slanted reporting gives aid and comfort to the enemy. Journalists should never be permitted in a war zone.
I was in Saudi Arabia during the Scud missle attacks there in 1991. An idiotic journalist was on top of the International Hotel broadcasting the target areas the Scuds were hitting. Saddam did'nt need a spotter, the news media did the job.

Answer 4

Does it really matter? Bullets and bombs are not racial and kill everyone equally. They kill friend and foe. The only advantage of bombs is that we can kill and mutilate more people with less work. How many hospitals were destroyed, how many schools, how many tiny villages? Journalists thrive on war and if anything escalate the animosity with polemics....Do you know know of Dickie Chapelle...a journalist for National Geographic....hardly a magazine known for fostering war...she was killed in Vietnam. Americans are damned fair...we are not race conscious when killing people....look at the equity of My Lai, and the Japanese were utmost politically correct as they murdered thousands of Chinese during the Invasion of Manchuria, and one of my favorites is the genocide of about 1/3rd of the entire population of Cambodia...about 4 million or so...and I just came back from the border of Myanmar where the Karen people are killed daily....so what is your point?

Answer 5

I'll bet they laid in wait for that journalist to show up...So would you then call that premeditated murder? Or do you think it was second degree, he just happened by and they decided to take him out.....how about if the ref in a hockey game gets injured during the game.....should we charge the players with assault? Going into a war zone is not exactly a safe place to be. He opted to go there and now you call it murder? A bit judgmental since you haven't even been there.....

Answer 6

In the first place you said(was murdered) and in the second(was shot at) how much bull .... are you trying to spread? remember class do your home work..

Answer 7

maybe they can incorporate it into thr movie script

Answer 8

They call it collateral damage to feel guilt free for their crimes..