thedrifter
03-20-07, 07:18 PM
ITV names US marines present at journalist's shooting
Tue Mar 20, 5:09 AM ET
Commercial broadcaster ITV on Monday revealed what it alleged were the names of all 16 marines who were present when television reporter Terry Lloyd was shot dead during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The broadcaster listed the names of the marines, reportedly members of Red Platoon, Delta Company, one by one, saying that one of the marines "almost certainly" fired the shot that killed Lloyd.
A coroner ruled in October that Lloyd, a correspondent for ITN News, was unlawfully killed by US forces in southern Iraq in 2003 and said he would try to ensure that those responsible are prosecuted.
Lloyd was killed, along with Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman and French cameraman Fred Nerac, near the Shatt al-Basra Bridge outside Basra, Iraq's second city, on March 22, 2003, two days after the invasion was launched.
Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker said the 50-year-old Lloyd was shot in the back after getting caught up in US and Iraqi crossfire, then shot in the head by US forces as he was taken away in a minibus for medical treatment.
During the inquest, the US troops involved were never publicly identified, and were not present to give evidence.
The lawyer for Lloyd's family welcomed ITV's decision to name the marines, and urged them to come forward with additional information.
"Clearly the fact that they have been named means that really the scrutiny is on them," said Louis Charalambous.
"We urge them to come forward to talk to us or talk to the authorities."
ITN News also launched a campaign on Monday for an amendment to the 1998 Rome Statute to include a particular international crime of the willful killing of a journalist as a war crime.
Ellie
Tue Mar 20, 5:09 AM ET
Commercial broadcaster ITV on Monday revealed what it alleged were the names of all 16 marines who were present when television reporter Terry Lloyd was shot dead during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The broadcaster listed the names of the marines, reportedly members of Red Platoon, Delta Company, one by one, saying that one of the marines "almost certainly" fired the shot that killed Lloyd.
A coroner ruled in October that Lloyd, a correspondent for ITN News, was unlawfully killed by US forces in southern Iraq in 2003 and said he would try to ensure that those responsible are prosecuted.
Lloyd was killed, along with Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman and French cameraman Fred Nerac, near the Shatt al-Basra Bridge outside Basra, Iraq's second city, on March 22, 2003, two days after the invasion was launched.
Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker said the 50-year-old Lloyd was shot in the back after getting caught up in US and Iraqi crossfire, then shot in the head by US forces as he was taken away in a minibus for medical treatment.
During the inquest, the US troops involved were never publicly identified, and were not present to give evidence.
The lawyer for Lloyd's family welcomed ITV's decision to name the marines, and urged them to come forward with additional information.
"Clearly the fact that they have been named means that really the scrutiny is on them," said Louis Charalambous.
"We urge them to come forward to talk to us or talk to the authorities."
ITN News also launched a campaign on Monday for an amendment to the 1998 Rome Statute to include a particular international crime of the willful killing of a journalist as a war crime.
Ellie