Fury as Jazeera Remembers Journalists Murdered By The US In Iraq and Afghanistan

April 9, 2003 1:00 AM

Fury as Jazeera remembers killed journalist

By John Chalmers

DOHA (Reuters) - Forget life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, says the widow of
al-Jazeera journalist Tarek Ayoub who died in a U.S. air raid on Baghdad.

For her, the American Dream has brought "blood, destruction and shattered
hearts".

Tears glistened in the eyes of Ayoub's colleagues at the Arabic language
satellite television channel on Tuesday as the grieving young woman spoke by
telephone to a news conference from her home in Amman, Jordan.

It was a public show of sorrow. And fury.

"My message to you is that from hatred grows more hatred," Dima said.

"My husband died trying to reveal the truth to the world," she said. "Please do
not try to conceal it, not for the sake of American policy, not for the sake of
British policy."
...
In a separate incident, two cameramen, one from Reuters and one from Spanish
television, were killed after a U.S. tank fired a single shell at Baghdad's Palestine
Hotel, where many Western journalists are based.
...
"We cannot ascertain...whether this was a deliberate attack on our reporter,"
said Jazeera Chairman Hamad Bin Thamir-al Thani. "But I would like to remind you that
our bureau in Kabul was targeted in the Afghanistan war two years ago."

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