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Tank on fire commander shot dead video
Tank on fire commander shot dead video









tank on fire commander shot dead video

tank on the Jumhuriyya Bridge, and one of their three unmanned cameras was struck by a shell, staff told CPJ.

TANK ON FIRE COMMANDER SHOT DEAD VIDEO TV

Moments later, Abu Dhabi TV staff on the roof came under machine gun fire from a U.S. Raed Khattar, a cameraman for Abu Dhabi TV who, at the time, was on the roof of Abu Dhabi TV’s office, saw what was likely the first missile because his office was between the plane and Al-Jazeera’s office, he told CPJ. Two Al-Jazeera correspondents said that while they suspected that the strike caused his death, he could have been killed by other ordnance.Īnother plane passed low about 15 minutes later and fired another missile, which struck across the road about 50 feet (15 meters) from the front door, blowing it off the hinges, according to Abdullah. At that point, a missile struck Al-Jazeera’s small generator, which was located outside the building at ground level just below where Ayyoub was believed to have been at the time. When Ayyoub and Nadhim went upstairs, Abdullah heard a plane fly so low that it sounded like it was going to crash into the building. Assistant cameraman Zoheir Nadhim returned to the roof with Ayyoub to adjust the camera. According to Abdullah, the crew realized moments later that their fixed camera had been knocked out of position and now faced the Ministry of Information building, which Iraqi authorities had explicitly warned the crew not to film. The crew went up to the roof to report but came down because it was unsafe. Talk show host and producer Maher Abdullah, a five-year Al-Jazeera veteran who had been in Baghdad for two weeks at the time, told CPJ that planes began flying low in the area at around 6 a.m. The incident occurred around dawn, after intense anti-aircraft fire began in the area. In October, a Centcom spokesman confirmed to CPJ that no investigation had been conducted. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, CPJ protested the bombing and called for an immediate investigation.

tank on fire commander shot dead video

military had been given the bureau’s coordinates weeks before the war began. Al-Jazeera officials pointed out that the U.S. The attack occurred during heavy fighting around the bureau in an area that housed government buildings targeted by U.S. Al-Jazeera correspondents deny that any fire came from their building. forces were responding to enemy fire in the area and that the Al-Jazeera journalists were caught in the crossfire. Al-Jazeera cameraman Zouhair Nadhim, who was outside on the roof with Ayyoub, was injured in the blast. missile struck the station’s Baghdad bureau, located in a two-story villa in a residential area near the Information Ministry and a palace compound of Saddam Hussein. Tareq Ayyoub, Al-Jazeera, April 8, 2003, BaghdadĪyyoub, a Jordanian working with the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, was killed when a U.S. 13 Confirmed cases of journalists killed in Iraq by U.S.











Tank on fire commander shot dead video