The US military acknowledged today its troops in Iraq had 'engaged' a Reuters cameraman, saying they had thought his camera was a rocket propelled grenade launcher.
'Army soldiers engaged an individual they thought was aiming an RPG at them. It turned out to be a Reuters cameraman,' Navy Captain Frank Thorp, a spokesman for the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told Reuters in Washington.
Cameraman Mazen Dana, 43, was shot and killed today while filming near a US-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Witnesses said he was shot by soldiers on an American tank.

Sydney Morning Herald/ReutersAugust 18 2003