RaMpAgE Posted April 8, 2003 DOHA (AFP) - Tareq Ayub, a correspondent for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television station, died of his injuries following a US missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices, the Arabic news channel reported A cameraman, Zuheir al-Iraqi, was hit in the neck by shrapnel in the blast, which the network charged was a deliberate strike Al-Jazeera's presenter accused the US military of "deliberately targetting" its offices and recalled that the station's Kabul bureau had been hit in November 2001 during the US-led assault on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan But a US military spokeswoman denied the missile strike was intentional. "We did not target Al-Jazeera. We only target legitimate military targets," said Major Rumi Nielson-Green at US forward headquarters in Qatar. As they filmed the arrival of two US tanks on a major bridge in central Baghdad close to their offices overlooking the river, what appeared to be Iraqi machinegun fire clattered out from just beneath the camera position. Several incoming blasts boomed out, engulfing the area in smoke and Abu Dhabi TV said it had lost contact with its correspondent. A US air force A10 "tank killer" plane provided close air support for the first time hitting the planning ministry and other targets in the administrative district around the sprawling city centre palace compound, an AFP correspondent reported. :eek: what a concidence huh lol.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mojam Posted April 8, 2003 what a coincidence. I remember the same thing hapenned in afghanistan too. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
