dinsdag, april 08, 2003
The camera of injured photographer Faleh Kheibar lies covered with blood on the 15th floor of Baghdad's Palestine Hotel. foto Patrick Baz.
Faleh Kheibar said he was trying to take a picture of a U.S. helicopter hovering over Baghdad when the shell hit Reuters' 15th floor suite. "I changed my place just seconds before the blast," he said. He was wounded by shrapnel to his forehead and left cheek.
U.S. Army Col. David Perkins told an Associated Press reporter assigned to the unit that Iraqis fired rocket-propelled grenades at tanks from in front of the Palestine Hotel, and the military, scanning the area for observation posts, saw binoculars and fired. The tanks were also taking fire from mortars, he said.
"There must have been 50 cameras on the balconies," said AP photographer Jerome Delay, who was on top floor. "How can they spot someone with binoculars and not cameras?" Delay said that he watched the tanks which had taken up positions on the bridge from his vantage point on the top floor of the hotel. "All the shooting was concentrated on the bridge and across the river," where U.S. forces were located, he said.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 22:43
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