Lloyd, along with his Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman, French cameraman Fred Nerac and Belgian cameraman Daniel Demoustier, was amongst the first non-”embedded” journalists to enter southern Iraq. Previously, the only Western media reports were heavily vetted stories filed by journalists attached to US and British units.
As the court repeatedly heard throughout the week, Lloyd was not a risk-taker but was very professional in his approach to his work. At the time of his death, he had worked for ITN for 20 years and was one of their most experienced journalists, having covered conflicts around the world.
On March 22, 2003, Lloyd’s team traveled to Basra to interview civilians on how they felt about the war. The crew was caught up in a firefight between US and Iraqi forces near the Shatt Al Basra Bridge. Lloyd and Osman were killed and Nerac is still missing, presumed dead.
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Journalist Murdered By U.S. Forces
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden
Interesting that again, it is the ominous, near anonymous hulk of an M-1 heavy tank that is doing the killing. Like the one that took out the journalists in the hotel in bagdad. Like the one that fired on the Italian journalist's car as it sped to the airport.
Is the US military and intelligence services using tanks as anonymous killers? It is certainly much harder to immediately identify a tank, even if you photograph it, than it is a man's face pulling the trigger. And tanks can recieve encoded instructions privately and given coordinates to move to and targets to engage.
This is similar to deaths of journalists that have occurred in Gaza....
Mechanized assassins, gunning down innocent lives with complete anonymity.
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous, the essential act of warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour”
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try that<br />
<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."