Friday, March 18, 2011

Anthony Shadid

"Shadid, who has also worked for the Washington Post and Associated Press during a career that has garnered him two Pulitzer Prizes, was shot in the shoulder on March 31, 2002, while covering an Israeli incursion into Ramallah in the West Bank for the Globe.  After the Globe asked for an investigation by the Israel Defense Forces, the IDF said he was not shot by an Israeli soldier, but was more probably shot by a Palestinian fighter. But other witnesses said there was no apparent crossfire at the time and only one gunshot was heard in the area, which had been under Israeli military control for several days." (thanks Jimmy)