10th May 2004
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Four Poles killed in black weekend in Iraq
Waldemar Milewicz, TVP war correspondent, was killed on Friday in Iraq when terrorist attacked a car carrying Polish journalists.
Algerian-Polish film editor Mounir Bouamrane was also killed in the attack, while a third Polish journalist, Jerzy Ernst, is in hospital with a serious arm injury. It was a black weekend in Iraq as another two Polish soldiers died on Saturday, bringing the death toll of Poles in Iraq up to six. Marek Krajewski, senior ensign, died in a road accident south of Karbala and Captain Sławomir Stróżak was wounded by a remotely detonated mine several hours later. Despite immediate medical help, Stróżak died in a hospital in Baghdad. All major TV stations and newspapers were outraged with the front page of Saturday's issue of Super Express. The tabloid published close-up photo of dead journalist Waldemar Milewicz on its front page. The Media Ethics Council condemned the behavior. However, TV station Al-Jazeera said that luck has less to do with the Poles' deaths and had more to do with the fact that they were very specifically targeted by terrorists. If this true, it would have wider and very grave implications. (Gazeta Wyborcza, May 8-9, p.1, Rzeczpospolita p. A1, A3, A6) K.J.
From Warsaw Business Journal
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