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Monday, June 20, 2005

Die Reporter Die

DUBAI (AFX) - Television channel Al-Arabiya said US military authorities had refused to authorize the evacuation from Iraq of reporter Jawad Kazem, who was wounded by armed men Saturday in Baghdad.

In a statement received by Agence France-Presse, the Dubai-based TV station said its attempts to obtain permission for a medical aircraft to evacuate its journalist from Baghdad had met with 'a refusal from the American military authorities'.

In 'intensive' contacts with 'the Iraqi government, the Pentagon, the State Department and American Central Command (Centcom) in Qatar' Al-Arabiya had explained 'the gravity of the state of health' of Kazem and 'the need to transfer him out of Iraq in the hope of saving his life,' the statement said.

One of his doctors in Baghdad told Al-Arabiya that Kazem, 37, had been wounded in the jaw, the windpipe and the spine 'which caused partial paralysis' of his legs.

Colleagues said armed men had tried to kidnap Kazem as he left a Baghdad restaurant.


Gotta love that "culture of life", eh?

Another soldier died in Iraq.

posted by granny at 6/20/2005 08:05:00 AM

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