VIDEO of Reuters Journalist Mazen Dana shot dead by US tank

At the end of the clip, Israeli settlers are seen dancing around after beaten Mazen Dana in an earlier incident last year.

The news clip includes the video Mazen Dana was shooting before being killed.

According the news report, the US military claimed Iraqi insurgents fired rocket propelled grenades into a prison holding Iraqi prisoners of war, killing 6 Iraqis and wounding 60.

Locals claim no such mortars were fired but that US troops killed the Iraqi prisoners who were protesting for better conditions (the temperature in the un-air conditioned compound must have reached oven temperatures).

More on this from Dennis Bernstein's Flashpoints (interview with Reuters World Editor):
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01:00 The Gubernatorial Race with Arianna Huffington, Indep. Candidate for Govenor talking with Dennis Bernstein on the phone. Guest in the studio Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights offers reasons for backing this progressive candidate.
Keeping it simple the ABC's of the California race. Arianna and Arnie, Bustamante, Camejo or maybe Davis. The first two both have thick accents, but the similarity ends there as she explains energy culpabiity of the current administration. Bustamante does not have a green record, Camejo does but would withdraw and support Arianna if necessary. She explains how Energy is not a free market, but a rigged market. Her priorities including schools over prisons. Van Jones recommends Arianna progressive stand.

28:00 Music Break: Track 6 of Middle East Mix
30:00 Audio track and voice of Mazen Dana excerpt from CBC documentary on reports: "In the Line of Fire".
"My kids they do not want me to go out of home, because they understand that maybe one day I will not come back":...





Mazen Dana received the 2001 International Press Freedom Award from the Committee To Protect Journalists (CBJ).
Images from the CBJ Website. For more info, a script of Nightline interview and Mazen's 2001 acceptance remarks visit: http://www.cpj.org/awards01/dana.html

31:00 The Killing of a Photographer in Iraq. Phone Guest Paul Holmes, World Editor of Reuters talks with Dennis Bernstein. Mazen was the second Reuters cameramen killed and the 19th journalist either killed or missing in Iraq. For 16 years he covered the Occupation of Palestine from his city of Hebron. He and his partner left to cover the Iraqi Occupation. He has survived being beaten and shot at three times, shot at with rubber bullets over 60 times but always returned to his family. His motto for working even at risk to his life is that "journalist's have a message and they carry that message to an audience that can bear witness".
Paul Holmes states that Mazen was an annonymous daily witness to the violence of Hebron. He knew him both as a great journalist and as a great man. Recipient of the 2001 International Peace and Freedom Award (Committee to Protect Journalists). The Army gives the dubious claims of "engaging the journalist", mistaking the camera for a grenade launcher. Holmes disputes these claims based on the evidence of other camera crews and the footage of the shameful incident. Reuters have demanded publicly for a full, open and public investigation be carried out immediately.


42:00 "In the Line of Fire" Excerpt from Film by the Canadian Broadcasting Company: Mazen Dana and the dangers.
"We are the targets of soldiers because we are filming the threat. They do not want to let the threat be published.
They do not want to let the world see what is going on here".

48:00 Remembering Mazan Dana: Intro by Dennis, Studio guests Barbara Lubin, Mid East Childrens Alliance
accompanied by Jihad, Palestinian student. Barbara's reflections on Mazen as "prince of a person" and risk taker who insisted on
bringing the truth to the world and especially the US. He believed that "Telling the truth and showing the pictures, that people -
especially here in this country might finally open their eyes and their hearts and their minds and do something". Jihad recalls his long
relationship with friend, fellow worker and role model for the new generation. He committed his life to cover the conflict - he was a
hero, an example and a film producer bringing the truth to the world at great risk to himself and his family.