The French TV channel had positioned two cameras in two rooms facing the bridge as of 6.30am (02h30 GMT).
“It had been very quiet for a moment. There was no shooting at all. Then I saw the turret turning in our direction and the carriage lifting. It faced the target,” said Herve de Ploeg, the journalist and film editor on contract with the French channel who filmed the attack.
“It was not a case of instinctive firing,” he said.
Why all the hostility toward journalists? Most of them not embedded, and at least one of these tragic deaths, because of the secrecy cloaking its aftermath, is now becoming a sign of ominous portent, as well.
Update: Reporters Without Borders accuses US military of deliberately firing at journalists’,CAPTION,’www.rsf.org’);” onmouseout=”return nd();”>This is the link I was looking for when I posted this entry. Thank you ex-lion tamer.