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WASHINGTON — The 2005 shooting death of a Reuters journalist in the midst of a firefight in Baghdad was justified because U.S. soldiers believed the camera protruding from a car was a rocket- propelled grenade, the Pentagon’s internal watchdog has concluded.
The Defense Department’s inspector general also said Reuters safety practices contributed to the death of sound technician Waleed Khaled and the wounding of cameraman Haider Kadhem.
The report concluded that “evidence establishes that the cameraman and driver took actions during the incident that reasonably led U.S. soldiers to believe they were confronting hostile intent.”
The Associated Press
