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Article: Fed: News cameraman first Australian casualty of war in Iraq
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- March 24, 2003
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Fed: News cameraman first Australian casualty of war in Iraq
A news cameraman has become the first Australian casualty of the
war in Iraq.
PAUL MORAN -- a 39-year-old freelance cameraman working for the
ABC -- was killed in
a suicide car bombing in northern Iraq.
The federal government says he appears to have been the victim
of retaliation by an
Islamic group for an earlier US bombing.
Mr MORAN was filming on Saturday at Sayed Sadiq in the autonomous
Kurdish area when
a taxi sped alongside him and exploded, killing him and four others
instantly.
Foreign Minister ...