US sniper kills Reuters sound man

[Seeker]

Waleed Khaled, 35, was hit by a shot to the face and at least four to the chest as he drove to check a report, called in to the Reuters bureau by a police source, of an incident involving police and gunmen in the western Hay al-Adil district.


Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based media rights group, called it "extremely disturbing" and said the Reuters soundman was the 66th journalist or assistant killed in Iraq since the invasion of 2003, three more than died in 20 years in Vietnam.


link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050829/ts_nm/iraq_reuters_dc)


It sounds like the occupation forces called in the "story" to set up the journalists.

These kinds of actions are not surprising coming from a military that bombs hospitals because they consider toe tags to be propaganda.

[Organic Revolution]

that is horrible... they shot him at least 5 times.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

The military should not be able to detain civilians. They arrested the sole witness to this incident, and have specified no charges and have given deliberately vague reasons for holding him.

Disgusting.

[Ownthink]

*Hopes Juba will get back in action soon*

Really, I haven't heard anything about Juba recently. Although, I did hear a story about another sniper who was just like him (maybe the same person?). But really, let's hope the sniper who killed this innocent man has a few 7.62 MM diameter holes in his body soon.


Imperialist pricks.

[Commie Rat]

god bless that man, i hope to god that he has not been killed

[Insomniac]

In war, the control of the flow of information can be at most times more important than the control of the battlefields.

In the past, prior to the means of mass communication such as TV, radio and the internet, a nation could LOSE many battles but the population would never lose morale because the information of those defeats never passed government circles.

Totalitarian societies like Nazi Germany and Ba'athis Iraq had means of mass communication, but due to the nature of their regimes they controlled the flow of information with regards to the wars they fought.

Iraq lost MANY battles in the eight year war with Iran yet the Iraqi people seldom found out about these defeats. The same can be said for Nazi Germany at the end of WW2, as most German's had faith in their war machine and Hitler's regime right up until it's collapse in June 1945.

Vietnam was the FIRST war the Americans fought were the US government could NOT control the flow if information and thus images of the millions of innocent Vietmanese civilians and Vietcong people being killed, raped, blown apart, shoot by US soldiers, most of whom were no older than 19, showed the American public that imperialist wars are not what their government propaganda machine tells them.

The American people saw the agression that the US did and thus they broke through the lie of the US government that the US forces were wanted by the Vietmanese and that the US forces were somehow winning that war.

The Bush Republican government is made up from politicians who either were in politics at the time of Vietnam or grew up in that era.

Colin Powell was in the US military in Vietnam.

Donald Rumsfeld was a cabinet minister in the early 1970s under Nixon and Ford.

Richard Cheney was a political figure at the time.

George Bush Senior was in the CIA at the time of the Vietnam.

Paul Wolfowitz was one of those radical 1960s leftists who then made his conversion in the late 1970s to neo-conservatism, thus he knew the potential strength of the radical movements of that era and always kept that in mind when he became a neo-conservative.

The Bush regime has done things differently SINCE Vietnam.

It is now ILLEGAL for the photo's of dead US soldiers who are flown back to the US, unlike Vietnam you DON'T see the daily picture of coffins being unloaded from airplanes anymore.

Families of dead US soldiers are now under HEAVY PRESSURE to keep their views and emotions under wraps to prevent the US media being flooded with tearful widows and mothers and fathers.

The US military now makes journalists become 'embedded' with them. This basically means that journalists are NOT allowed to go where they want or talk to who they want. The journalists are also PREVENTED from interviewing US soldiers who would speak out against the war or who question their being in Iraq.

Thus we see the US population not really giving any REAL opposition to the war like their was in Vietnam as the media is under the governments thumb and thus people are largely ignorant of the real situation in Iraq.

Most Americans will think your either a terrorist supporter or delusional and mad if you say that US forces cannot win the war military against the Iraqi Resistance, that the puppet Iraqi regime in the Baghdad Green Zone has NO support amongst the Iraqi people, that the Iraqi Resistance is mainly made up of oppressed, poor Iraqis, rather than the US media spin that ALL Iraqi fighters are foriegn puppets at the hands of Usama bin Laden, that a lot of US troops do NOT want to be in Iraq.

Yet all of the above are true.

If you have noticed, the Bush supporters never really cared about the BIG anti war demos organised by A.N.S.W.E.R. or UPJ, yet the Bush supporters go CARZY over the Cindy Sheehan protest, despite her protest having only a 1000 or so people.

The reason being is that the BIG anti war demos are mainly pacifist in that they ask for the war to stop on moral grounds. Most people in the US won't really respond to this message, not yet anyways.

Yet Sheehan's protest is not about 'war is not nice, lets stop it', it is about her dead son dying for a regime that could not care less.

As this revoloves around the issue of dead US troops, this will catch on with the American public, because for all they know, their son/daughter/parent could be NEXT!

American's, like most people, will oppose the war and the system when they think they could be affected, as most people won't oppose it on pacifist moral grounds.

This is why the neo-conservatives and the Bush supporters have gone crazy with rage over a protest that is small in size, but is BIG in potential to catch on.

The Bush regimes nightmare is if other mothers start doing the same and Sheehan's pop up all over the US.

All of this stuff I have talked about above is why the US kills journalists in such high numbers, you never hear stories of chairty workers being killed, because they pose no threat so there is no question of friendly fire here.

The US regime will do all it can to stop the flow of information out of Iraq, we should do all we can to make it flow.

[Anarchist Freedom]

5 Times wow thats intense. How could you do that?

[Seeker]

I'd rather get shot 5 times and die instantly than get shot once and left to bleed.

All I'm saying is that the number of shots isn't the issue. One is too many.

[bolshevik butcher]

Yeh, lots od journalists have been killed. only hte embedded ones are safe. It stops real war reporting.

[Correa]

Reuters Journalist Killed By U.S. Buried In Iraq
In Iraq, a funeral was held Monday for Waleed Khaled, the sound technician working for the Reuters news agency who was shot dead by U.S. forces on Sunday. The 35-year-old Khaled, was shot in the face and took at least four bullets to the chest. According to Reuters, U.S. soldiers were heard joking around when Waleed Khaled's family came to the scene of the shooting. As his tearful relatives inspected his corpse, a U.S. soldier said "Don't bother. It's not worth it." A few other soldiers joked among themselves just a few feet from the body. According to Reporters Without Borders Khaled is the 66th journalist to be killed in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. In comparison, a total of 63 journalists were killed in the Vietnam War.

Source: www.democracynow.org

Alarming, is it not?

[praxis1966]

Along with what has already been stated by Insomniac, it's also interesting to note the indirect response Bush gave to Sheehan in a speach to a group of VFW members last week. He spoke about a woman present who lost a husband in Iraq, and also had five sons serving there. A couple had come home he said, and added something along the lines that she was a real American. Reading between the lines, one can patently see that he was basically saying to Sheehan, "Oh yeah?" and then engaged in a pissing contest with her. To bogart John Stuart of the Daily Show, Bush went on to say that families like the Sheehans are why puppies die.

[metalero]

Paul Wolfowitz was one of those radical 1960s leftists who then made his conversion in the late 1970s to neo-conservatism, thus he knew the potential strength of the radical movements of that era and always kept that in mind when he became a neo-conservative.

interesting to know this about that bastard...tough i really believe he didn´t know a thing about socialism and revolution..where did u get this from??

[Insomniac]

interesting to know this about that bastard...tough i really believe he didn´t know a thing about socialism and revolution..where did u get this from??

I have actually seen that fact of Wolfowitz's early life from many sources.

Biographies of his life, a TV doc. about the ideological roots of neo-conservatism etc...

It is common knowledge that MOST neo-conservatives have had a background in far-left politics.

Since most neo-conservatives were from middle class famalies, I suppose they were those leftists who in the 1960s went all guilty about their privileged status but as they grew up and got good jobs they lost their guilt and transformed into neo-conservatives.

I WAS a neo-conservative/semi anarcho-capitalist in my youth.

However as I got older, I went further to the left to the point of today, where I would say that Im a Left Communist/Council Communist/Anarcho Communist.

Im NOT a Leninist and I REJECT reformism, capitalist elections/don't vote and support direct action like that of Seattle in 1999.

Im happy my right wing beliefs occured when I was young as MOST people change their political beliefs as they grow up and at least I KNOW Im not one of those teenagers who is a communist when young and then gets a job on the stockmarket and leaves all his beliefs behind him.