"I demand that Bush order his soldiers to stop killing journalists."

More journos dead in Bush's war than in Vietnam


http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4003

The next day, Mazen Dana, 41, was planning to return to his wife and four children, who lived in the West Bank town of Hebron, where he'd built his award-winning career. Finally, he would have time to dote on his 1-year-old daughter, Bisan, who barely knew a father whose job took him to the hot zones of the Middle East.

He was about to head back to the Reuters office with his soundman and best friend, Nael Shyoukhi, when, suddenly, tanks rumbled into view near the prison, according to a Reuters account. Instinctively, he leaped out of the vehicle, hoisted his blue, canvas-covered camera to his shoulder and began filming the armored combat patrol. He was standing out in the open, in broad daylight.

Eyewitnesses told the wire service that the Abrams tank was some 50 or so yards away when, without warning, a burst of machine gun fire rang out. There was a scream.

Dana clutched his chest and crumpled to the ground. As Shyoukhi rushed to his fallen colleague, soldiers, their guns raised, surrounded him and ordered him to stand back.

"Please help, please help," he begged, as he watched blood soak through Dana's T-shirt. He remembers shouting, "You killed a journalist!" as the Americans held him at bay. "Mazen took a last breath and died before my eyes," Shyoukhi told reporters after the incident on August 17, 2003.

Dana's wife, Suzanne, grief-stricken and enraged at what she considered a cold-blooded attack, told Reuters: "He was intentionally killed as he was doing his job. I demand that President Bush personally order his soldiers to stop killing journalists."

that he was filming when he got shot. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the link. However, from seeing the video it is clear that the troops didn't look like they thought they were threatened and that he was deliberately killed in cold blood.