Ronin pay tribute to the brave terry lloyd

Ronin recognise that it is not only the soldiers and other military units that brave the war zones across the world, however it is the media that take as many risks if not more......

Imagine the only weapon you have is a press badge or camera.....

Terry lloyd was one of the most daring reporters of the world press... he was killed on a blue on blue.....

No one will take responsibility in this outrageous incident...





UK: No prosecution over journalist death in Iraq

LONDON (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday there was not enough proof to charge anyone in the death of a British journalist in southern Iraq during the 2003 U.S.-led invasion though forensic evidence suggests he was killed by American forces.

Terry Lloyd, 50, was working for Britain's Independent Television News when his four-man team was caught in crossfire between U.S. and Iraqi forces. The four were among the few Western reporters who covered the fighting on their own instead of embedding with U.S. or British forces.

Lloyd's Lebanese translator also was killed and the body of a French cameraman has never been found. A Belgian colleague survived.

A 2006 British inquest ruled that U.S. forces unlawfully killed the reporter by shooting him in the head as he lay in the back of an improvised ambulance. But Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Monday it was not possible to say who fired the fatal shot.

"There is insufficient evidence at the current time to establish to the criminal standard the identity of the person who fired the bullet that killed Mr. Lloyd," said Sue Hemming, chief of the prosecution service's counterterrorism division.

She also said there was not enough evidence to single out anyone "responsible for the chain of events" that led to Lloyd's death.

ITN said it was disappointed by the decision and accused American authorities of being uncooperative.

The Pentagon previously said that an investigation into Lloyd's death was completed in May 2003 and "determined that U.S. forces followed the applicable rules of engagement."

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Monday that the Defense Department has never deliberately targeted noncombatants, including journalists, but added that "it has been an unfortunate reality that journalists have died in Iraq."

"We will continue to work with news organizations to do everything realistically possible to reduce the risk on an inherently dangerous battlefield, but we must remember that there are inherent risks in covering a war," he said.

Lloyd's team was traveling to the southern Iraqi city of Basra to investigate a rumor that an Iraqi armored brigade had surrendered when they came under Iraqi attack, forcing them to turn around. American forces, mistaking their cars for enemy vehicles, opened fire.

A civilian minibus taking Lloyd and wounded Iraqis to the hospital was attacked — apparently by American forces, Hemming said.

Forensic evidence showed he was killed by a bullet fired from a U.S. weapon, she said, suggesting he was first injured by a shot from the Iraqis and then was hit by a bullet fired by the Americans at the minibus.

"This was an extremely complex and difficult investigation into what happened in a war zone," Hemming said, adding that "every care was taken in pursuing lines of inquiry and reviewing the evidence."


All at ronin pay tribute to terry and wish his family peace!