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March 13, 2011 12:54 am PST

Al Jazeera cameraman killed in Libya, in government ambush of news crew

Al Jazeera has announced that one of its cameramen, Ali Hassan Al Jaber, was killed after a reporting team for the Arabic-language channel was ambushed by government forces near the town of Benghazi. The news sparked an outpouring of emotion and support for the network and the slain cameraman. Wadah Khanfar, the director general of the Al Jazeera Network, announced the death in broadcast remarks, saying "the network will not be silent after death of our cameraman" and would seek to prosecute the perpetrators. Read a longer account, with archives of tweets from people close to the story, here....


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