Incidents Raise Suspicions about Motive: Killing of Journalist by US Forces is a Growing Problem

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Incidents Raise Suspicions about Motive: Killing of Journalist by US Forces is a Growing Problem
by Dave Lindorff | November 27, 2012 - 10:23am

During the Vietnam War, which US forces fought from 1960 through 1974, and which cost the lives of several million Southeast Asians and 58,000 Americans, eight American journalists died. Not one of them was killed by American fire.

In the Iraq War, 136 journalists were killed. At least 15 of them -- about 11% of the total -- were killed by US forces, sometimes apparently with deliberate intent.

In Afghanistan, nine journalists have been killed, at least one by US forces, and in that case, the killing was deliberate, though it is unclear whether the victim was known to be a journalist.

One thing is clear: it is dangerous in the extreme to be a journalist covering America’s wars, at least beginning with Vietnam.