Tuesday 28 February 2012

U.S. journalists were killed for shoes

LONDON (AFP / Reuters) - U.S. war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes, in a bombing raid in the city of Homs, Syria, told The Sunday Times which is where she works.
Colvin and a number of other journalists to follow the local custom, by removing their shoes before entering a building used as a press center of the war, in the besieged city.
The journalists were on the ground floor of the building, while the upper floor exposed to rocket attacks, the newspaper said in a full page which tells how the attack occurred.
Although they survived, Colvin ran to retrieve her shoes, to the place where he left his shoes.
However, when he got his shoes, a rocket landed in front of the building so that he and a French photographer named Remi Ochlick buried in the rubble of buildings, so the two were killed, the report said.
The mother of Colvin, Rosemarie told CNN on Saturday that, perempuanya child is likely to be buried in Syria, because it was considered too risky for rescuers, to restore his body.
"Yesterday we said that, today is probably the last day to take care of his body," he told the network.
Red Cross team on Saturday said that they have not reached an agreement to evacuate the two journalists who were killed and the injured from Homs, Syria. It can not be done because the forces of President Bashar al-Assad continued to launch attacks into the city Baba Amr.
Meanwhile, a British photographer, Paul Conroy, who was serving with Colvin and French journalists, Edith Bouvier, injured in the attack.
Conroy's wife on Monday urged the British Foreign Office, to consider the decision that they would not send troops to rescue her husband, because the mission was deemed too dangerous.
"I would love it if someone from the embassy, ​​who said that they forget the protocol, I will continue and continue to urge them, even though I knew that it would never happen," said the wife of Conroy told BBC Radio 4.
"I had a fierce argument with a member of parliament, and he really made it clear to me, that it would never happen," he continued.
Britain has invited the Syrian ambassador to London on Thursday, to request that the Syrian government to facilitate repatriation of bodies of the journalists, and to provide medical treatment for Conroy



LONDON (AFP / Reuters) - U.S. war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed while trying to retrieve her shoes, in a bombing raid in the city of Homs, Syria, told The Sunday Times which is where she works.
Colvin and a number of other journalists to follow the local custom, by removing their shoes before entering a building used as a press center of the war, in the besieged city.
The journalists were on the ground floor of the building, while the upper floor exposed to rocket attacks, the newspaper said in a full page which tells how the attack occurred.
Although they survived, Colvin ran to retrieve her shoes, to the place where he left his shoes.
However, when he got his shoes, a rocket landed in front of the building so that he and a French photographer named Remi Ochlick buried in the rubble of buildings, so the two were killed, the report said.
The mother of Colvin, Rosemarie told CNN on Saturday that, perempuanya child is likely to be buried in Syria, because it was considered too risky for rescuers, to restore his body.
"Yesterday we said that, today is probably the last day to take care of his body," he told the network.
Red Cross team on Saturday said that they have not reached an agreement to evacuate the two journalists who were killed and the injured from Homs, Syria. It can not be done because the forces of President Bashar al-Assad continued to launch attacks into the city Baba Amr.
Meanwhile, a British photographer, Paul Conroy, who was serving with Colvin and French journalists, Edith Bouvier, injured in the attack.
Conroy's wife on Monday urged the British Foreign Office, to consider the decision that they would not send troops to rescue her husband, because the mission was deemed too dangerous.
"I would love it if someone from the embassy, ​​who said that they forget the protocol, I will continue and continue to urge them, even though I knew that it would never happen," said the wife of Conroy told BBC Radio 4.
"I had a fierce argument with a member of parliament, and he really made it clear to me, that it would never happen," he continued.
Britain has invited the Syrian ambassador to London on Thursday, to request that the Syrian government to facilitate repatriation of bodies of the journalists, and to provide medical treatment for Conroy.

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