Casualties of War

"This is tragic and horrible. An AP cameraman executed by insurgents in Iraq while doing his job.

Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah, father of two small children, died because he was doing something the insurgents didn't want him to do. He could have stayed in the garage, where he was getting his car fixed. He died running toward action, which is what good newsmen do. Looks like a nice guy in his picture. Looks like a lot of cameramen I know. He died for a paycheck, and maybe, if he was lucky, for something he believed in.

This should not be confused with the AP's other problems in Iraq. Photographer Bilal Hussein, who operated with insurgents freely because he did what they wanted him to. Numerous other AP stringers and staffers who are complicit in reporting war crimes the U.S. military and Iraqi police say never happened, citing a source they say does not exist."
Juels Crittenden