Mazen Dana (1962-August 17, 2003) was a Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman and was shot by United States soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on August 17, 2003. The soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket launcher. Mazen Dana was filming outside Abu Ghraib Prison after obtaining permission from US authorities. Days before his death, Dana had filmed a mass grave constructed by U.S. soldiers to bury other U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq. Wikipedia
Cameramen Mazen Dana and Nael Shyouki of the British news agency, Reuters, and their colleagues are accustomed to the risks of photographing street protests and riots. www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/israel.palestine/thest...
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"From the eyewitness accounts, it appears that Dana was fired on without warning," wrote the Committee to Protect Journalists in an open letter to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld . "He was filming in an area where no hostilities were taking place, r dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/08/20/photographer/
Mazen Dana was a very brave man. As a cameraman for Reuters and a Palestinian living in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Dana had been shot, beaten, his bones broken, and chased and jailed by armed Israeli troops so many times that the sheer number www.washington-report.org/archives/October_2003/0310014.html
Mazen Dana , a veteran television cameraman for Reuters, was killed in Baghdad on Sunday while filming outside the city's Abu Ghraib prison. According to wire service reports, Dana was shot by U.S.soldiers riding on a tank in the Iraqi capital. The 43-y electronicintifada.net/v2/article1827.shtml
