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March 30, 2003

Journalist dies in fall from hotel roof

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LONDON - A British TV correspondent covering the war in Iraq died Sunday after apparently falling from a hotel roof, his network said... Gaby Rado, 48, was found in a parking lot of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, where he and other reporters were staying, according to Independent Television News... An ITN statement said his death didn't appear related to any military action. Rado had been in the Kurdish controlled area of northern Iraq, reporting on Kurdish fighters and coalition troops for ITN's Channel 4 News in London. The front line there is more than 50 miles west of Sulaymaniyah, and there had been no reports of fighting in the town.

Posted By Lonewacko at March 30, 2003 02:47 PM | TrackBack

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Let the "Did he fall, or was he pushed?" begin.

See also 'Iraq Says U.N. Weapons Inspector Dies in Road Accident' and the recent Saudi ambassador's death in the Ivory Coast.

Posted by: Lonewacko at March 30, 2003 02:51 PM

Channel 4 produces some of the best news programs I've ever seen. Rado was an important part of that team.

Posted by: enloop at March 30, 2003 03:01 PM

Maybe they should have pitched a tabloid newspaper correspondent off the roof at the same time to see if 175 pounds of bullshit falls at the same at 175 pounds of fluff?

Posted by: Laurence Simon at March 30, 2003 03:10 PM

I guess workplace health and safety will be there to investigate, and make them install guard rails on iraqi rooftops. Wonder what the blood alcohol
levels will be?

Posted by: I.Wonder at March 30, 2003 03:28 PM

yeah, the first thing we are going to do after the war is not bringing food or medicine to the needy..... it's to install guard rails on iraqi roof tops so that journalists can do their reporting without falling off.

Posted by: stupidme at March 30, 2003 04:54 PM