ZIONAZIS MACHINE GUN ACCLAIMED CHILD RIGHTS FILM JOURNALIST JAMES MILLER
Frontline, AP, Ha'aretz | 03.05.2003 03:03
James holds various prestigious awards for his work. He is perhaps most famed for his work as cameraman and associate producer on "Innocents Lost" investigating human rights abuses against children throughout the world. This won an Emmy and the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Award for International Journalism. James Miller was shot dead today while filming a documentary on how zionazi home demolitions affect Palestinian children. Miller and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank when the tank opened fire.
ZIONAZIS MACHINE GUN ACCLAIMED CHILD RIGHTS FILM JOURNALIST JAMES MILLER
by Frontline, AP, Ha'aretz Friday May 02, 2003 at 07:57 PM
James holds various prestigious awards for his work. He is perhaps most famed for his work as cameraman and associate producer on "Innocents Lost" for Channel Four, investigating human rights abuses against children throughout the world. This won a number of awards including an Emmy and the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Award for International Journalism. James Miller was shot dead today while filming a documentary on zionazi home demolitions in the southern city of Rafah along the Egyptian border, zionazii media reported. Miller and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank when the tank opened fire.
Please note that 3 articles follow:
*James Miller
*Journalist shot dead in Gaza
*British journalist killed by IDF fire while filming in Rafah
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James Miller
Frontline
http://www.frontlinetv.net/jmiller.htm
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James Miller
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Recently back from filming in Korea, James has just entered three of his documentaries to the Rory Peck Awards. The winners will be announced 26 October.
Earlier this year James travelled to Chechnya to film for Channel 4's Dispatches programme which aired on 9 March 2000. This report unearths startling evidence of war crimes as Russian troops bombed a refugee convoy attempting to leave their village. Click here to read a description of James' experiences in Chechnya.
Highly regarded by many of the world's leading broadcasters, James Miller joined Frontline in 1995 and has been working as a cameraman and producer alone and with reporters ever since. The countries he has covered include: Algeria, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Turkey and Northern Iraq. His reports have been broadcast on Channel 4 News, BBC News, CNN, CBC and Channel 5 among others.
Last year, James also worked for the Dispatches programme; "Prime Suspect" investigates the massacre of over 100 men and boys in one village in Kosovo. This documentary won an RTS award for Best International Current Affairs programme.
Some of James' other credits include "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" which examines the persecution of the Romany minority in present day Czech Republic and "Russia's Forgotten Children" which followed the Duchess of York undertaking charity work with the street children of St Petersburg.
James holds various prestigious awards for his work. He is perhaps most famed for his work as cameraman and associate producer on "Innocents Lost" for Channel Four, investigating human rights abuses against children throughout the world. This won a number of awards including an Emmy and the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Award for International Journalism. James was also a finalist in the inaugural Rory Peck Awards in 1995 for a report on Turkish Kurdistan.
http://www.frontlinetv.net/jmiller.htm
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Journalist shot dead in Gaza
From correspondents in Rafah
The Associated Press
May 3, 2003
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6374979%255E1702,00.html
A FREELANCE British journalist was shot dead today while filming a documentary in the southern city of Rafah along the Egyptian border, Israeli media reported.
The journalist, who was identified by witnesses and colleagues as James Miller, was shot in the neck and taken from the scene in an Israeli tank.
A helicopter was called to evacuate the journalist to the hospital, but he died before the helicopter arrived, Israel radio and newspapers reported.
The journalist apparently was filming a documentary on the Israeli army's house demolitions in Rafah when the Israeli tank opened fire.
A man who said he also was a British journalist and identified himself only as Dan, said that the victim and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank when the tank opened fire.
The army said a tank was on a mission to find weapon-smuggling tunnels on the border when it came under fire.
The tank returned fire, and troops later found a wounded man who was treated at the site and was being evacuated to an Israeli hospital. The army could not immediately confirm Miller's death.
Israeli tanks routinely open fire as they patrol the border to protect against possible ambushes by Palestinian gunmen.
The Israeli army also routinely demolishes houses in the Rafah area, charging that Palestinian militants use the buildings to fire on troops and to serve as a cover for weapons-smuggling tunnels leading to the Egyptian side of the border.
The journalist was the third foreigner to be injured or killed in Rafah in recent weeks.
American Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Washington, died March 16 in Rafah when an Israeli bulldozer she was trying to block ran her over. The army said the bulldozer operator did not see her.
On April 11, British peace activist Tom Hurndall, 21, was shot in the head at the Rafah refugee camp. He is in a coma. Witnesses said Hurndall was shot by an Israeli soldier in a military watchtower as Hurndall stooped to pick up a Palestinian girl and carry her to safety.
The army said it is investigating the shooting.
In the West Bank, peace activist Brian Avery, 24, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was shot in the face in the town of Jenin on April 5. The army said it was firing at gunmen and was not aware it hit Avery.
Associated Press Television News cameraman Nazeh Darwazeh was killed on April 19 in the West Bank city of Nablus while videotaping clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians.
Witnesses said Darwazeh was shot by an Israeli soldier taking cover behind an armuored vehicle in an alley. The military insisted there were also Palestinian gunmen in the alley.
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists condemned Darwazeh's killing, saying there was evidence of Israeli soldiers targeting journalists. It called on Israeli authorities to carry out a full investigation and said they don't do enough to protect media covering the conflict.
The group represents more than 500,000 journalists in over 100 countries.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6374979%255E1702,00.html
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British journalist killed by IDF fire while filming in Rafah
By Arnon Regular and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
Ha'aretz
May 3, 2003
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/289673.html
Israel Defense Forces troops demolishing a home suspected of concealing an arms-smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip shot dead a British television cameraman late Friday, military officials and Palestinian witnesses said.
James Miller, who was in the flashpoint refugee camp of Rafah making a documentary on how Palestinian children are affected by violence, was fired upon unprovoked, witnesses said. He died after being evacuated by Israeli forces for treatment.
"We got close to the area and filmed, but we couldn't leave because an (Israeli) tank was around 100 meters from where we stood," Abdel-Rahman Abdullah, a freelance Palestinian journalist who saw the night-time incident, told Reuters.
"We were very visible to the troops, with a white flag and 'TV' markings on our vests, but still the troops opened fire, hitting James Miller," he said.
The IDF denied troops targeted Miller, saying their operation was to uncover tunnels used by militants to smuggle in weapons from nearby Egypt for a 31-month-old armed uprising.
"Our forces found a tunnel at the house in question, when an anti-tank missile was fired at them. They shot back at the source of the attack," army spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal said.
"James Miller was apparently hit during that exchange. The Israeli military expresses sorrow at a civilian death, but it must be stressed that a cameraman who knowingly enters a combat zone, especially at night, endangers himself," Dallal said.
Rafah sees frequent Israeli incursions against the tunnels - eliciting gunfire from Palestinian militants protecting them.
But Abdullah said there were no exchanges of fire on Friday night. "We even called out to the Israeli troops in their armored vehicles and could hear them talking inside, before they started shooting," he said.
A spokesman for the British embassy in Tel Aviv said he was aware of the incident but declined to give details.
Dozens of foreign journalists have been hurt while reporting on the Palestinian uprising for independence in Gaza and the West Bank, which erupted in September 2000.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/289673.html
by Frontline, AP, Ha'aretz Friday May 02, 2003 at 07:57 PM
James holds various prestigious awards for his work. He is perhaps most famed for his work as cameraman and associate producer on "Innocents Lost" for Channel Four, investigating human rights abuses against children throughout the world. This won a number of awards including an Emmy and the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Award for International Journalism. James Miller was shot dead today while filming a documentary on zionazi home demolitions in the southern city of Rafah along the Egyptian border, zionazii media reported. Miller and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank when the tank opened fire.
Please note that 3 articles follow:
*James Miller
*Journalist shot dead in Gaza
*British journalist killed by IDF fire while filming in Rafah
---
(1)
James Miller
Frontline
http://www.frontlinetv.net/jmiller.htm ----------------------------------------------
photo:
http://www.frontlinetv.net/images/miller.jpg James Miller
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Recently back from filming in Korea, James has just entered three of his documentaries to the Rory Peck Awards. The winners will be announced 26 October.
Earlier this year James travelled to Chechnya to film for Channel 4's Dispatches programme which aired on 9 March 2000. This report unearths startling evidence of war crimes as Russian troops bombed a refugee convoy attempting to leave their village. Click here to read a description of James' experiences in Chechnya.
Highly regarded by many of the world's leading broadcasters, James Miller joined Frontline in 1995 and has been working as a cameraman and producer alone and with reporters ever since. The countries he has covered include: Algeria, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, Turkey and Northern Iraq. His reports have been broadcast on Channel 4 News, BBC News, CNN, CBC and Channel 5 among others.
Last year, James also worked for the Dispatches programme; "Prime Suspect" investigates the massacre of over 100 men and boys in one village in Kosovo. This documentary won an RTS award for Best International Current Affairs programme.
Some of James' other credits include "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" which examines the persecution of the Romany minority in present day Czech Republic and "Russia's Forgotten Children" which followed the Duchess of York undertaking charity work with the street children of St Petersburg.
James holds various prestigious awards for his work. He is perhaps most famed for his work as cameraman and associate producer on "Innocents Lost" for Channel Four, investigating human rights abuses against children throughout the world. This won a number of awards including an Emmy and the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Award for International Journalism. James was also a finalist in the inaugural Rory Peck Awards in 1995 for a report on Turkish Kurdistan.
http://www.frontlinetv.net/jmiller.htm ---
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Journalist shot dead in Gaza
From correspondents in Rafah
The Associated Press
May 3, 2003
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6374979%255E1702,00.html A FREELANCE British journalist was shot dead today while filming a documentary in the southern city of Rafah along the Egyptian border, Israeli media reported.
The journalist, who was identified by witnesses and colleagues as James Miller, was shot in the neck and taken from the scene in an Israeli tank.
A helicopter was called to evacuate the journalist to the hospital, but he died before the helicopter arrived, Israel radio and newspapers reported.
The journalist apparently was filming a documentary on the Israeli army's house demolitions in Rafah when the Israeli tank opened fire.
A man who said he also was a British journalist and identified himself only as Dan, said that the victim and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank when the tank opened fire.
The army said a tank was on a mission to find weapon-smuggling tunnels on the border when it came under fire.
The tank returned fire, and troops later found a wounded man who was treated at the site and was being evacuated to an Israeli hospital. The army could not immediately confirm Miller's death.
Israeli tanks routinely open fire as they patrol the border to protect against possible ambushes by Palestinian gunmen.
The Israeli army also routinely demolishes houses in the Rafah area, charging that Palestinian militants use the buildings to fire on troops and to serve as a cover for weapons-smuggling tunnels leading to the Egyptian side of the border.
The journalist was the third foreigner to be injured or killed in Rafah in recent weeks.
American Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Washington, died March 16 in Rafah when an Israeli bulldozer she was trying to block ran her over. The army said the bulldozer operator did not see her.
On April 11, British peace activist Tom Hurndall, 21, was shot in the head at the Rafah refugee camp. He is in a coma. Witnesses said Hurndall was shot by an Israeli soldier in a military watchtower as Hurndall stooped to pick up a Palestinian girl and carry her to safety.
The army said it is investigating the shooting.
In the West Bank, peace activist Brian Avery, 24, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was shot in the face in the town of Jenin on April 5. The army said it was firing at gunmen and was not aware it hit Avery.
Associated Press Television News cameraman Nazeh Darwazeh was killed on April 19 in the West Bank city of Nablus while videotaping clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians.
Witnesses said Darwazeh was shot by an Israeli soldier taking cover behind an armuored vehicle in an alley. The military insisted there were also Palestinian gunmen in the alley.
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists condemned Darwazeh's killing, saying there was evidence of Israeli soldiers targeting journalists. It called on Israeli authorities to carry out a full investigation and said they don't do enough to protect media covering the conflict.
The group represents more than 500,000 journalists in over 100 countries.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6374979%255E1702,00.html ---
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British journalist killed by IDF fire while filming in Rafah
By Arnon Regular and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
Ha'aretz
May 3, 2003
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/289673.html Israel Defense Forces troops demolishing a home suspected of concealing an arms-smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip shot dead a British television cameraman late Friday, military officials and Palestinian witnesses said.
James Miller, who was in the flashpoint refugee camp of Rafah making a documentary on how Palestinian children are affected by violence, was fired upon unprovoked, witnesses said. He died after being evacuated by Israeli forces for treatment.
"We got close to the area and filmed, but we couldn't leave because an (Israeli) tank was around 100 meters from where we stood," Abdel-Rahman Abdullah, a freelance Palestinian journalist who saw the night-time incident, told Reuters.
"We were very visible to the troops, with a white flag and 'TV' markings on our vests, but still the troops opened fire, hitting James Miller," he said.
The IDF denied troops targeted Miller, saying their operation was to uncover tunnels used by militants to smuggle in weapons from nearby Egypt for a 31-month-old armed uprising.
"Our forces found a tunnel at the house in question, when an anti-tank missile was fired at them. They shot back at the source of the attack," army spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal said.
"James Miller was apparently hit during that exchange. The Israeli military expresses sorrow at a civilian death, but it must be stressed that a cameraman who knowingly enters a combat zone, especially at night, endangers himself," Dallal said.
Rafah sees frequent Israeli incursions against the tunnels - eliciting gunfire from Palestinian militants protecting them.
But Abdullah said there were no exchanges of fire on Friday night. "We even called out to the Israeli troops in their armored vehicles and could hear them talking inside, before they started shooting," he said.
A spokesman for the British embassy in Tel Aviv said he was aware of the incident but declined to give details.
Dozens of foreign journalists have been hurt while reporting on the Palestinian uprising for independence in Gaza and the West Bank, which erupted in September 2000.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/289673.html
Frontline, AP, Ha'aretz
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uhh
03.05.2003 03:49
Israel does NOT BENEFIT in ANY way if foreign journalists get hurt, especially if it's going to be blamed on the Israeli army.
Palestinian fighters, who are so insane that they are willing to blow themselves up if it means killing some jews, DO benefit if they shoot a journalist and get it blamed on Israel.
It's a STREET WAR over there. Some innocent people are bound to be hit. But to be angry at Israel for stuff like that is idiotic. Britain and Israel are friends. How in hell would it help Israel to hurt a british journalist who wasn't doing anything wrong? It doesn't. So anything that does happen is 99.9% likely to be an accident.
But if a palestinan shoots a british journalist and gets it blamed on israel, that's a big public relations victory for the palestinians.
Use your brains. Israel does not benefit in ANY way from doing that on purpose. So, to accuse them of that is idiotic. IT's certainly not state policy to do it, and if some individual officer did it, Israel would be MAD at that officer.
uhh
they kill whoever they want!
03.05.2003 03:57
" we the jewish people own America, and they (the Americans) know it"
john
uhhh
03.05.2003 05:07
.223 (5.56 mm), and it's the Israelis. Bigger (7.62 mm, for example), and it's probably the Palestinians.
If you know, please tell.
If you don't, please fuck off with your Zioconspiracy theory.
Bri.
Brian
Read the reports.
03.05.2003 10:00
"A man who said he also was a British journalist and identified himself only as Dan, said that the victim and two colleagues were simultaneously filming and waving a white flag as they walked toward the tank when the tank opened fire."
So it does seem that it was the Israeli tank that shot James.
Btw, could we not refer to Israelis as Zionazis? It's both offensive and innacurate.
mark
what's wrong with 'zionazi'?
03.05.2003 13:30
They set up concentration camps through the use of walls and checkpoints;
they punish the population collectively for the actions of a few freedom fighters, just like the nazis did in france against the french resistance;
they write numbers on palestinians to keep track of them;
they refuse them basic human rights based upon racial heritage;
they execute people without due process of law;
they torture legally;
they murder innocent children and women and men without compunction
they force people out of their homes, with a long term goal of forcing them out of their own country;
they have a political ideology based upon racist assumptions
i could go on....but why not the term zionazi? it is an accurate description, symbolically, of the current actions of israeli soldiers and politicians, supported by a majority of the population in israel.
gentle gentile
Why..
03.05.2003 14:54
If you want to use a term for the IDF soldiers who routinely kill Palestinians, and now peace activists and journalists, why not use the term murderer?
In any case, using the term zionazi is never going to help bring about a peaceful solution in Palestine.
mark
Public relations - not
03.05.2003 19:27
The Crimson Expat
reply to uhh
04.05.2003 02:09
Perhaps, Uhh my friend, you should use your brain.
Israel benefits as follows:
1. This man was making a documentary which, on his previous record, might have won awards and been widely shown. Almost certainly it will now never be completed or shown. Nothing has the power of real live video, and such a documentary could potentially cause huge propaganda damage to the Israeli cause. Damage far greater than the damage caused by the "accidental" shooting of a journalist who was in a war zone from his own choice.
2. Being dead, this man will also be prevented from making future similar documentaries.
3. Even the eyewitness reports which indicate that this may have been deliberate are to Israel's advantage. Their friends will not believe it. But other documentary makers will be drastically deterred. If they'll shoot a man with such a reputation, they'll shoot anyone. The message is clear. No pro-palestinian documentaries.
I don't know enough to form a firm opinion of what actually happened here. But I do know that that your quoted assertion is absolutely incorrect.
ha
beneath the veil ?
09.05.2003 14:18
Why was the media so coy ? Presumabley because the GB government, for diplomatic reasons, wants to play UP Palestinian attacks, and to play DOWN israeli attacks ? I have no other explanation.
Thus, I went looking for any article, just to ensure that one existed; in these Orwellian times, it is vital that it does.
late additional comment 09 May 03