{"id":1379,"date":"2011-03-13T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2011-03-13T12:00:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T12:00:03","slug":"al-jazeera-staffer-killed-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/03\/13\/1379\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera staffer killed in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"aljazeera-staffer-killed\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/aljazeera-staffer-killed.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"210\" \/>An Al Jazeera cameraman has been killed in what appears to have been an ambush near the rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya.<br \/>Ali Hassan Al Jaber was returning to Benghazi from a nearby town after filing a report from an opposition protest when unknown fighters opened fire on a car he and his colleagues were travelling in.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two people including Al Jaber were shot. Al Jaber was rushed to hospital, but did not survive.<br \/>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Tony Birtley, reporting from Benghazi, said Al Jaber was hit by three shots and was wounded through the heart.<br \/>&#8220;This is an extension of the campaign against Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera Arabic particularly &#8211; because everyone here watch Al Jazeera Arabic. Their work has been heroic, and it has been a great shock to lose a colleague.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Cowardly crime&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wadah Khanfar, the director-general of Al Jazeera, said the network &#8220;will not remain silent&#8221; and will pursue those behind the ambush through legal channels.<br \/>He said that the killing came after &#8220;an unprecedented campaign&#8221; against the network by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.<br \/>&#8220;Al Jazeera condemns the cowardly crime, which comes as part of the Libyan regime&#8217;s malicious campaign targeting Al Jazeera and its staff,&#8221; the network said in a statement.<br \/>&#8220;Al Jazeera reiterates the assault cannot dent its resolve to continue its mission, professionally enlightening the public of the unfolding events in Libya and elsewhere.<br \/>&#8220;Al Jazeera stresses it will relentlessly prosecute and bring to justice all perpetrators and their accomplices.&#8221;<br \/>Al Jaber, a Qatari national, was born in 1955 and received his bachelor and master&#8217;s degrees in cinematography from the Academy of Arts in Cairo. He was the director of CNBC Arabiya TV bureau in Qatar.<br \/>He also served as a supervisor in the National Olympic Committee between 2002 and 2005 and held the office of Head of Filming Section in Qatar Television for more than 20 years.<br \/>During his tenure, he produced a number of documentaries including one on Qatar and another on Kuwait entitled &#8220;Plight and Tribulation&#8221;.<br \/>His death marks the first report of a journalist killed in the current conflict in Libya.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Al Jazeera<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Al Jazeera cameraman has been killed in what appears to have been an ambush near the rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya.Ali Hassan Al Jaber was returning to Benghazi from a nearby town after filing a report from an opposition protest when unknown fighters opened fire on a car he and his colleagues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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