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Arab Journalists Protest U.S. Killing

HeadlineMar 19, 2004

Meanwhile Secretary of State Colin Powell landed in Baghdad to mark the one year anniversary. This morning more than 20 Arab journalists walked out of a Powell press conference in Iraq protesting the death of two Iraqi journalists from the Arabic news channel Al-Arabiya who were allegedly killed by the US Thursday. According to the station, one of their cameramen and correspondents witnessed a car accident between a U.S. vehicle and an Iraqi. Fearing a car bombing, they ran from the scene and were shot. The U.S. claimed it killed only one person when he tried to run through a check point. Meanwhile in Northern Iraq three Iraq journalists were killed by gunmen. They had been working for a TV station funded by the U.S.-led coalition.

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