The U.S. military said Tuesday a cameraman killed in the Iraqi city of Ramadi while on assignment for Reuters had died in a gunbattle between Marines and insurgents. Video footage of the incident showed no apparent fighting and no sounds of shooting in the vicinity before Dhia Najim was killed by a single bullet. He filmed heavy clashes between Marines and insurgents earlier in the day but that fighting had subsided. Najim's colleagues and family said they believed he had been shot by a U.S. sniper. Najim's killing, a devastating attack on an Arab news channel in Iraq and a threat by Islamic militants to slaughter journalists have raised fears that reporters have become direct targets in a country already rife with peril, Reuters reports.
Behind the Homefront articleNot the first time the systematic killing of reporters by U.S. forces in Iraq has been brought up.
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