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Dutch journalist drops camera., grabs rifle...
Greg Kendall-Ball, Photographer, Assistant
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Wally Nell, Photographer
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CAIRO | EG | EGYPT | Posted: 12:52 PM on 05.23.11 |
| ->> All I can say is that at times one feels like doing that..., firing back... |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:22 PM on 05.23.11 |
| ->> Maybe I'm missing something here, but where was the story? The facts? All I saw was a two sentence post by this blogger....no context whatsoever. |
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Luke Johnson, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 2:16 PM on 05.23.11 |
->> "Riding with them in the desert for two months, hunting for the Taliban, he even had to pick up a gun himself in a huge ambush"
I think anyone would pick up a gun and fight if their life was in imminent danger. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 2:54 PM on 05.23.11 |
| ->> This has happened before. Read up on Joe Galloway and the Battle of La Drang in Vietnam in 1965. U.S. troops were being overrun by NVA ....he not only picked up a gun during the fighting, he saved several soldiers and was the only civilian ever awarded a bronze star. This was shown in the movie "We Were Soldiers" and based on his best selling book. |
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Jim Colburn, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Omaha | NE | USA | Posted: 4:12 PM on 05.23.11 |
->> In England this is known as "going troppo". Getting so into your station (usually overseas) that you start believing you're a native of the place you're in.
If this account is indeed true the only excuse for his picking up a gun and joining in would be if his life, or the lives of those around him, were in desperate, desperate danger.
What little story there is suggests otherwise, that his camera battery died and, not having anything better to do, he picked up a weapon and started trying to kill people.
If this worst case scenario is the case then he isn't a journalist or a documentarian, he's a mercenary, or worse. |
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Chris Parent, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Baton Rouge | LA | United States | Posted: 4:26 PM on 05.23.11 |
->> Jim,
I don't think it came down to him having nothing better to do. I think he decided that shooting the footage was his first priority. He was the only one with that skill set there at the moment and that was his first responsibility. Once he couldn't do that, it was to his and the entire team's advantage if he helped out where he could. It wasn't that he decided to just go killing people, it was that his talents were then best used helping to defend his and the entire team's lives. |
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