SCOTLAND YARD "WAR CRIMES" UNIT PROBES TV NEWSMAN'S DEATH

A "war crimes" unit set up within Scotland Yard has launched an investigation into the 2003 shooting death of Terry Lloyd, a reporter for Britain's ITN television news service, the London Sunday Observer reported. Lloyd had been wounded in fighting between U.S. troops and insurgents and had been placed in a civilian ambulance when marines fired into the ambulance striking him in the head and killing him. The U.S. later described the shooting as a "friendly fire" incident, but a British coroner ruled last October that Lloyd had been unlawfully killed. An attorney for Lloyd's widow told the Observer that U.S. authorities have given him the names of the soldiers. "Now we need to find out whether they will allow us to interview [them]," he said. The London Sunday Times reported that it has learned that four British soldiers witnessed what occurred but that their existence had been kept quiet by the Ministry of Defense.

12/02/2007