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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:23 pm Post subject: British reporter allegedly shot by US soldiers |
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ITN reporter was shot by US soldiers, inquest told
Leigh Holmwood
Saturday October 7, 2006
The Guardian
ITN reporter Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by American troops as he was being driven to hospital, the inquest into his death was told yesterday.
An account by an Iraqi witness claimed Lloyd was still alive after the original attack on his car but was killed by US troops as he was driven from the scene.
The unnamed driver's account, which was read out by the deputy assistant coroner for Oxfordshire, Andrew Walker, at the inquest in Oxford, gave new details of the last moments of Mr Lloyd's life.
It also came to light that British forces witnessed the events of March 22 2003 in which Lloyd and his interpreter, Hussein Osman, died and his French cameraman, Fred Nerac, went missing near Basra in southern Iraq.
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Big_Bird
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Coroner seeks trial for US troops who killed TV man
Audrey Gillan and Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday October 14, 2006
The Guardian
The American soldiers who shot dead the ITN journalist Terry Lloyd could face trial in a British court for murder after a coroner ruled that they had unlawfully killed an innocent civilian.
Andrew Walker, the assistant deputy coroner for Oxfordshire, said yesterday he would be writing to the attorney general and the director of public prosecutions "to see whether any steps can be taken to bring the perpetrators responsible for this to justice".
The verdict was welcomed by Lloyd's family, employers and the National Union of Journalists. His widow Lynn accused US forces of allowing soldiers to "behave like trigger-happy cowboys in an area in which there were civilians travelling on a highway". In a statement she said: "The marines who fired on civilians and those who gave those orders should now stand trial. Under the Geneva Conventions Act, that trial should be for the murder of Terry Lloyd and nothing less."
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huffdaddy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: Re: British reporter allegedly shot by US soldiers |
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It also came to light that British forces witnessed the events of March 22 2003 in which Lloyd and his interpreter, Hussein Osman, died and his French cameraman, Fred Nerac, went missing near Basra in southern Iraq. |
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A shame. But why are they only making a big deal about the Brit who was killed? What about the interpreter? Or the many other Iraqi civilians who have been killed? |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: British reporter allegedly shot by US soldiers |
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It also came to light that British forces witnessed the events of March 22 2003 in which Lloyd and his interpreter, Hussein Osman, died and his French cameraman, Fred Nerac, went missing near Basra in southern Iraq. |
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A shame. But why are they only making a big deal about the Brit who was killed? What about the interpreter? Or the many other Iraqi civilians who have been killed? |
Sadly, you make a very good point. |
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