U.S. Helicopter Fires On Crowd in Baghdad. Journalist Killed
Car bombings, mortar attacks and clashes between
insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi security forces killed at least 80
civilians across the country Sunday, Iraqi officials said. In Baghdad,
the scene of some of the most intense fighting in months, at least 27
people were killed and 107 were wounded. A U.S. military helicopter
fired into a crowd of civilians who had surrounded a burning Army
armored vehicle in the capital, killing 13 people, said Saad Amili,
spokesman for the Health Ministry. Among those killed was a Palestinian
journalist reporting from the scene for the Arab satellite network
al-Arabiya. The U.S. military said it was trying to scatter looters who
were attempting to make off with ammunition and pieces of the Bradley
Fighting Vehicle, which had been hit by a car bomb early in the morning
on Haifa Street, a troublesome north-south artery west of the Tigris
River. But witnesses, including a Reuters cameraman who was filming the
al-Arabiya journalist when he was shot, disputed that account and said
the crowd was peaceful, Reuters reported.
Pictured above: Journalist Mazen Tumeisi is seen falling and his blood covers the lens. [more ] In the video, which was shown
on al-Arabiya throughout the day, the journalist, he
can be seen reporting near the burning armored vehicle. It is not clear
what the people around it were doing. As the camera moved to the sky to
capture the image of two low-flying military helicopters swooping onto
the scene, bullets rained down, hitting Tumaisi and the cameraman, Seif
Fouad, who was seriously wounded. The camera lens was sprayed with
blood, and Tumaisi could be heard saying, "Please help me. I am dying."
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] In the video, which was shown
on al-Arabiya throughout the day, the journalist, he
can be seen reporting near the burning armored vehicle. It is not clear
what the people around it were doing. As the camera moved to the sky to
capture the image of two low-flying military helicopters swooping onto
the scene, bullets rained down, hitting Tumaisi and the cameraman, Seif
Fouad, who was seriously wounded. The camera lens was sprayed with
blood, and Tumaisi could be heard saying, "Please help me. I am dying."
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