Terry Lloyd

Terry Ellis Lloyd (born November 21, 1952 - March 22, 2003 ) was a British television journalist who specialized in the Middle East . He died from firearms at the beginning of the Iraq war while reporting for ITN . A British court came in October 2006 concluded that he was "unlawfully killed" (English. Unlawfully killed ) Service.

Lloyd was born and raised in Derby . He became a television reporter for Central Television . He joined ITN in 1983. In 1988 he reported that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons in Halabja and killed 5,000 Kurds . In 1999, he became the first foreign journalist to reach Kosovo by crossing a mountain range from Montenegro with his cameraman Mike Inglis .

He died on March 22, 2003 when, as a reporter with two cameramen and a translator at Shatt al-Arab in Basra , he was caught between the US armed forces and the Iraqi Republican Guard as a reporter not “embedded” in the US and UK forces . Examinations of his body and that of the Lebanese translator Hussein Osman showed that they had been hit by bullets from US troops. The French cameraman Frédéric Nérac is still officially missing. The Belgian cameraman Daniel Demoustier survived.

The Royal Military Police are investigating the incident. Major Kay Roberts, who was involved in the investigation, testified that a video tape taken by the US unit's cameraman that shot Terry Lloyd was edited before it was released to the British. The forensic experts who examined the tape concluded that about 15 minutes had been removed. Roberts testified that the tape was leaked "many months" after the incident and that the US had declared it was "all they had".

The ITN team drove in two cars with clear markings for the press. Frédéric Nérac and Hussein Osman drove behind Terry Lloyd and Daniel Demoustier. They encountered an Iraqi convoy at the Shatt al-Arab bridge in Basra. Nérac and Osman were taken out of their car and had to get into an Iraqi vehicle. British investigations revealed that the convoy was escorting a Ba'ath Party leader to Basra. US forces fired at the Iraqi convoy, killing Osman. Nérac's body was not found, but the tests indicated it was unlikely that he could have survived.

Frédéric Nérac's wife, Fabienne Mercier-Nérac, testified that she had received a letter from US authorities denying that she was at the location where the ITV News team was attacked.

Demoustier and Lloyd, still in the ITV car, got caught in the exchange of fire between the Iraqi and US forces. Lloyd was hit by an Iraqi bullet, but not fatally. He was loaded into a civilian minibus that had stopped to pick up victims. Forensic evidence showed US forces shot at the minibus after it turned off, killing Terry Lloyd. Demoustier survived.

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The investigation was held in Oxfordshire in October 2006 and lasted eight days, with the verdict on October 13, 2006. Judge Andrew Walker ruled that there was an unlawful homicide by the US military and that he would become the prosecutor for England and Wales write to file a charge.

Andrew Walker said ITN was not to blame for Terry Lloyd's death and said he believed the journalists' vehicles were first shot at by US tanks. Walker said, “If the vehicle had been perceived as a threat, it would have been shot at before it turned away. That would have resulted in damage to the front of the car. I have no doubt that it was the fact that the vehicle stopped to pick up survivors that led the Americans to shell the vehicle. "The National Union of Journalists said Terry Lloyd's death was a war crime .

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1. ↑ Iraq reporter unlawfully killed on BBC News , October 13, 2006, accessed May 2, 2016
2. ^ US forces killed ITN man in Iraq
3. ↑ IFJ challenges US after unlawful killing verdict