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U.S. Troops Shoot & Wound CBS Cameraman

HeadlineApr 06, 2005

Meanwhile in the Iraqi city of Mosul, U.S. forces shot and wounded a television cameraman working for CBS News. The soldiers claimed they mistook his video camera for a gun. The man is an Iraqi-born freelancer working for the network. The shooting comes nearly a month to the day after US forces opened fire at a car carrying Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena. She survived the shooting but a senior Italian intelligence officer died.

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