[A-List] Fw: Ambassador Brings Wounded Russian To Syria, Ukrainian Journalist Killed By US

["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Rick Rozoff" <r_rozoff@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 5:16 AM
Subject: Ambassador Brings Wounded Russian To Syria, Ukrainian Journalist
Killed By US


> 1) Injured Russian Ambassador To Iraq Brings Wounded
> Driver, Diplomat To Syria
> 2) US Bombing Of Palestine Hotel Killed Veteran
> Ukrainian Journalist
>
>
> http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cg/Qiraq-war-russia-us-syria.RFVR_DA8.html
>
> Russian envoy brings back two Russian diplomats from
> Iraq to Syria
>
> -Titorenko, who was slightly hurt in the incident,
> alleged that US forces had deliberately opened fire on
> his convoy.
>
>
>
> MOSCOW, April 8 (AFP) - Russia's ambassador to Iraq on
> Tuesday repatriated to Syria two members of his
> country's diplomatic staff who had stayed behind in
> Iraq, and who had allegedly been shot at by US forces
> in the country, diplomatic sources in Moscow told
> Russian news agencies.
>
> Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko drove into Iraq from
> Syria, to where he had been evacuated Monday, to fetch
> a Russian embassy driver who was wounded in the
> shooting incident and who had been left behind in an
> Iraqi hospital, as well as a Russian diplomat who had
> stayed to look after him.
>
> The three men were met by diplomats with the Russian
> embassy in Damascus after they crossed into Syria, the
> unidentified diplomatic sources in Moscow said.
>
> Titorenko, who had arrived Monday in Damascus with a
> Russian diplomatic convoy that left Baghdad Sunday,
> had earlier been expected to fly on to Moscow.
>
> On Tuesday a plane landed in Moscow from the Syrian
> capital Damascus carrying 12 people including three
> Russian diplomats who were wounded when their road
> convoy came under fire Sunday, Interfax reported.
>
> Titorenko, who was slightly hurt in the incident,
> alleged that US forces had deliberately opened fire on
> his convoy.
>
> The United States scrambled Tuesday to prevent its
> ties with Russia from deteriorating further over the
> weekend incident, offering high-level assurances that
> it took the matter extremely seriously and that a full
> investigation was underway.
>
> According to eyewitness accounts, the convoy was
> caught in crossfire between US and Iraqi soldiers,
> although it was not clear which side shot first.
>
> Titorenko told the ITAR-TASS news agency on Monday
> that the convoy had not deviated from the agreed-upon
> time and route for departure and that US forces had
> deliberately shot at the vehicles.
>
> Titorenko's account directly contradicted US
> suggestions that Iraq might have set up the attack by
> instructing the convoy's drivers to take a different
> route than had been agreed upon with US diplomats, in
> order to create an international incident.
>
> The 12 Russian diplomats who remained in Baghdad will
> not be evacuated from the besieged city for the time
> being, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander
> Saltanov said Tuesday.
> -------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.rosbaltnews.com/2003/04/09/62145.html
>
> Rosbalt (Russia)
> April 9, 2003
>
> Killed Ukrainian Journalist's Name Is Released
>
> KIEV, 8 April. Ukrainian officials released the name
> of the journalist who was killed as a result of
> bombing of the central Bagdad hotel Palestine by the
> anti-Iraq coalition forces on Tuesday. According to
> Rosbalt, the victim of the bombing was a Ukrainian
> citizen and correspondent for Reuters in Iraq Taras
> Protsyuk. The 35-year-old Protsyuk worked in several
> so-called hot spots including Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya
> and Macedonia. In the early 1990's, the journalist
> worked in Kiev for CNN.
>
> In 1999, he began working for Reuters. Over the last
> several years, Protsyuk worked in the Warsaw bureau of
> Reuters and lived in Warsaw where his wife and
> eight-year-old son Denis remain.
>
> The details of Protsyuk's death are not clear.
> According to Rosbalt, a reporter from Syrian radio who
> was working in the Palestine hotel said, 'a person
> speaking Russian was buried under steel and concrete
> reinforcements from the 15th floor of the hotel during
> the bombings.
>
> U.S. soldiers confirmed on Tuesday morning the massive
> rocket attack strike of the Palestine hotel.
>
>
>
>
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