War Photographer Chris Hondros Witnesses U.S. Shooting of Iraqi Parents in Car With Six Children

[babylonsister]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/142201

War Photographer Chris Hondros Witnesses U.S. Shooting of Iraqi Parents in Car With Six Children


We speak with Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Chris Hondros. He is best known for graphic photographs he took in the northwestern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005 when U.S. troops opened fire on a family of eight approaching a checkpoint in a car. Both parents were killed while the six children in the backseat looked on.

He has worked in most of the world's major conflict zones since the late 1990s, including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq, Lebanon, and Liberia. Chris's work has appeared on the covers of major magazines and on the front pages of most major American newspapers.

Chris is a staff photographer for the international photo agency Getty Images. He has just returned from his ninth stint in Iraq, which he chronicled at his blog on GettyImages.com. He joins us today in our firehouse studio.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Thank you. I'm going to watch now. eom

[opihimoimoi]

2. A very heavy load for them soldiers(bless them) to carry for the rest of their lives

Such is war\\

but war will lead to mistakes\\

Which happens a lot\\

However: This WAR is THE MISTAKE\\

Compounding the GUILT BURDEN for the actual shooters\\

Enough already....bring the Troops home ASAP.....

Bush the Bad Trip has not been good for America, Iraq, Peace, Sanity, and the Future....Counter productive really...hold on...the office is calling....

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. This is heartbreaking. And I agree with you, these soldiers will carry this around with

them for the rest of their lives, as will these innocent orphaned children.

This madness has to stop.

[Javaman]

4. but now that those kids have that scar with them for the rest of their lives

the madness won't stop, it's just been perpetuated.

We are growing a new crop of American hating people daily with this war.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. I did mention those poor orphaned children. It's horrific. eom

[KansDem]

5. This incident?

--Photo by Hondros

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. You have me crying here all over again........ eom