From Occupied Palestine

We have a long and dishonourable tradition of smearing the dead
ROBERT FISK
Independent, 23 August 2003

Across the marble floor of the Shrine of the Imam Hussein in Kerbala scampers Suheil with his plastic bag of metal. He points first to a red stain on the flagstones. "This was a red smoke grenade that the Americans fired," he tells me. "And that was another grenade mark." The Shia worshippers are kneeling amid these burn marks, eyes glistening at the gold fa

US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman
JAMIE WILSON
Guardian, 19 August 2003

Baghdad -- Journalists who were with a Reuters news cameraman shot dead by US troops while filming outside a Baghdad prison yesterday accused the soldiers of behaving in a "crazy" and negligent fashion.

US admits cameraman was shot dead at close range
JUSTIN HUGGLER
Independent, 19 August 2003

Baghdad -- The American army admitted yesterday that its soldiers killed an award-winning Reuters cameraman. Mazen Dana, a Palestinian, was shot dead by a US tank crew at close range while trying to film outside Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison on Sunday, after a mortar attack on the prison.

“Don’t kill the truth”: Hundreds in Hebron mourn Palestinian journalist Mazen Dana who was shot dead by U.S. troops in Baghdad
AMY GOODMAN
Democracy Now!, 19 August 2003

Mazen Dana was killed covering a mortar attack on a prison in Baghdad for Reuters on Sunday. U.S. soldiers claimed they mistook the cameraman’s camera for a rocket propelled grenade launcher. The Pentagon said the soldiers accidentally “engaged a cameraman.”

Killed Reuters cameraman grew up in conflict
REUTERS, 17 August 2003

Baghdad -- Most foreign journalists in Iraq can dream of the safety of home when things get tough, but for Mazen Dana, a Palestinian cameraman for Reuters killed in Baghdad on Sunday, home itself had proved dangerous enough.

Dana, killed by a bullet on the outskirts of Baghdad, spent most of his decade with Reuters working in his strife-torn home town of Hebron on the West Bank, where he was shot at and beaten numerous times.

Soldiers thought camera was a grenade launcher: US
ANDREW MARSHALL
Sydney Morning Herald, 19 August 2003

Baghdad -- American troops shot dead an award-winning Reuters cameraman while he was filming near a US-run prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad.

Witnesses said soldiers in a US tank shot at Mazen Dana, 43, as he filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison, which had earlier come under a mortar attack. Dana's last pictures show a US tank driving towards him outside the prison walls.

U.S. troops' shooting of cameraman probed
ANTHONY SHADID
Washington Post, 18 August 2003

Baghdad -- A U.S. military spokesman today called the shooting death of an award-winning Reuters cameraman "a terrible tragedy" and said an investigation underway could lead to changes in how the 132,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq decide when and how soon to open fire in a country still beset by guerrilla attacks and lawlessness.

U.S. soldiers shoot, kill Reuters cameraman
HANNAH ALLAM, KEN DILANIAN and DREW BROWN
San Jose Mercury News, 18 August 2003

Baghdad (Knight Ridder) -- U.S. soldiers shot and killed a Reuters television cameraman outside a prison west of Baghdad on Sunday, a day after an overnight mortar attack there left six Iraqi prisoners dead and nearly 60 wounded.

Mazen Dana, 41, a Palestinian who worked for the British news agency for more than a decade, was shot while filming a convoy on the road outside the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison, where several hundred criminals and anti-U.S. guerrillas are being held. Dana's colleagues said he did nothing wrong. He was on the last day of his assignment in Iraq and was supposed to meet his family in Jordan on Monday.

Reporters fault U.S. troops in Iraq death
TAREK AL-ISSAWI
Kansas City Star, 18 August 2003

Baghdad (AP) -- Fellow journalists accused U.S. troops of negligence in the shooting death of a Reuters cameraman, saying it was clear the victim was a newsman when soldiers on two tanks opened fire. Press advocacy groups called for an investigation.

Mazen Dana, 43, was shot and killed by U.S. soldiers Sunday while videotaping near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. Army said its soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

Inquiry call after U.S. troops kill cameraman
ALASTAIR MacDONALD
Reuters, 18 August 2003

London -- World media bodies are demanding a public inquiry into the killing by U.S. troops of a Reuters
television cameraman, the second journalist from the international news agency to be killed in Iraq in four months.

The U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) in Paris urged Washington