Everything about Taras Protsyuk totally explained
Taras Protsyuk (
1968 –
April 8,
2003) was a
Ukrainian-born TV
cameraman working for
Reuters, who was killed during the
US invasion of Iraq.
Protsyuk was filming from a balcony of the
Palestine Hotel in
Baghdad, where most of the foreign journalists were staying, when a
shell fired by a U.S.
M1 Abrams tank killed him and
José Couso, a cameraman for the
Spanish television station Telecinco. The U.S. soldier commanding the tank was Sgt.
Shawn Gibson of the
U.S. 3rd Infantry Division.
On the day Protsyuk was killed, a total of three locations in Baghdad housing journalists were fired upon by U.S. armed forces,
killing three journalists and wounding four.
During his career, Protsyuk covered the conflicts in
Afghanistan,
Bosnia,
Chechnya,
Kosovo. He also did news reports about
Poland where he was based, working for Reuters.
There were conflicting reports about the nature of the shelling that killed Protsyuk. In the immediate aftermath of the incdient,
U.S. military officials claimed one of their tanks had fired on the hotel in response to incoming
sniper and rocket fire. However, journalists in the hotel at the time of the shelling, claimed to have heard no fire coming from the hotel. Moreover, the accidental nature of the incident was subject to further questioning when a former military intelligence official revealed in 2008 that the Palestine Hotel had been listed as a military target prior to the 2003 incident.
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