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Two Western journalists were killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs Wednesday when shells hit the house they were staying in, opposition activists and witnesses said.
They were named as Marie Colvin, an American working for Britains Sunday Times, and French photographer Remi Ochlik.
A witness reached by Reuters from Amman said shells hit the house in which they were staying and a rocket hit them when they were escaping.
Both were veteran correspondents of wars in the Middle East and elsewhere.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/22/us-syria-journalists-idUSTRE81L0FU20120222
Marie Colvin's last report (warning graphic)
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See http://ht.ly/9ds8u
tabatha
(18,795 posts)(Marie Colvin on her final assignment in Homs)
In her last report, she described climbing over walls in the dark and slipping into muddy trenches to meet up with rebel fighters and activists to get to Homs. So desperate were they that they bundled me into an open truck and drove at speed with with the headlights on, everyone standing in the back shouting Allahu Akbar God is greatest. Inevitably, the Syrian army opened fire, she wrote. The beginning of the next sentence made me laugh, because I could hear her voice saying it. When everyone had calmed down . I can see the scene now, with over-excited fighters making the situation worse, and Marie shouting Calm down!, terrified and laughing at the same time.
http://blogs.channel4.com/world-news-blog/my-friend-marie-colvin/20408
tabatha
(18,795 posts)Syrian Parliament @SyriaParliament
communication between #Syria n officers intercepted by Lebanese intelligence has revealed direct orders issued 2 target Colvin press centre!
tabatha
(18,795 posts)By Nabila Ramdani, Peter Allen in Paris2:06PM GMT 22 Feb 2012
The 55-year-old Sunday Times reporter was killed alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, in a rocket attack on the besieged city of Homs this morning.
Now communication between Syrian Army officers intercepted by Lebanese intelligence staff has revealed that direct orders were issued to target the makeshift press centre in which Colvin had been broadcasting.
If journalists were successfully killed, then the Syrians were told to make out that they had died accidentally in firefights with terrorist groups, the radio traffic revealed.
Just before she died, Colvin had appeared on numerous international broadcast networks including the BBC and CNN to accuse Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad's forces of 'murder'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9098511/Marie-Colvin-killed-Syrian-forces-had-pledged-to-kill-any-journalist-who-set-foot-on-Syrian-soil.html
Ruby the Liberal
(26,322 posts)"The Syrian army is shelling cold, starving civilians".
Thank you, Marie. RIP.
tabatha
(18,795 posts)tabatha
(18,795 posts)Then Cooper spoke with a reportera very great and experienced reporterwho was on the scene, Marie Colvin, of the Sunday Times of London. The image of Colvin on the screen was instantly recognizable to anyone who has spent time reporting, as she had for a generation, from the Middle East, Africa, Chechnya, the Balkans, or South Asia; after losing an eye in the civil war in Sri Lanka, in 2001, she wore an eye patch. For decades, she has been a ubiquitous presence in the war zones of the world and her reports in the Times were admired in the close-knit world of foreign correspondents for their scrupulous and straightforward eloquence.
On the telephone from Homs, Colvin told Anderson that the death of the child was an emblem of the overall reality of what was happening in Homs:
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/02/postscript-marie-colvin-1957-2012.html#ixzz1n9gV3PQ7