And Some Bad News

Probably only the first of many similar instances we'll here about.

One of Britain's most experienced television correspondents was unlawfully killed by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, an inquest into his death ruled on Friday.

Veteran war correspondent Terry Lloyd, 50, who worked for ITN, was killed in March 2003 in southern Iraq as he reported from the front line during the first few days of the U.S.-led invasion.

The ITN News crew, which unlike most journalists covering the war was unattached to any U.S. or British unit, had come under fire at Iman Anas, near Basra, while driving towards the port city in two vehicles marked "Press".

Lloyd, who had reported from Iraq, Cambodia, Bosnia and Kosovo during his award-winning career, and translator Hussein Othman, were killed.

Their colleague, French cameraman Fred Nerac, is still missing believed dead while another cameraman Daniel Demoustier was able to escape.

An inquest in Oxford heard that Lloyd, a father-of-two, had been hit by an Iraqi bullet but then died when he was struck in the head by an American bullet.

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