Associated Press
4/21/2004
The U.S. military acknowledged that American soldiers killed two employees of a U.S.-funded Iraqi television station, saying the men may have failed to heed warning shots. However, a wounded cameraman said troops opened fire on their vehicle without warning.
Angry Iraqi journalists joined a chanting, weeping crowd Tuesday as two pickup trucks carried the flag-draped coffins of the slain men into Baghdad.
The shooting of Al-Iraqiya correspondent Asaad Kadhim and his driver, Hussein Saleh, was galling for many employees because their station – funded by the Pentagon and broadcasting from U.S. coalition headquarters – is derided by many Iraqis as a source of American propaganda.