Terry Lloyd

Terry Lloyd , born Terence Ellis Lloyd (November 21st 1952 - March 22nd 2003) was Journaliste with the British Télévision . He was cut down by the army of the the United States whereas he covered the invasion of Iraq in 2003 for the English network ITN.

Born and raised in the area of the Derby, Lloyd becomes to defer tele for Independent the Central chain Television, then joint with INT in 1983.

In 1988, it reveals that Saddam Hussein used Kurdish chemical weapons to kill 5000 with Halabja.

In 1999, Terry Lloyd became the first foreign journalist to enter to the Kosovo, while forwarding via the mountains starting from the Montenegro, accompanied by sound Caméraman Mike Inglis.

Terry Lloyd lost the life with Basra in Iraq the March 22nd 2003, when its team and were wedged to him in a cross Tir between the American soldiers and the Iraqi forces, close to the bridge which spans the river Shatt Al-Arab. The interpreter Hussein Osman, a Lebanese , was also killed. The cameraman French Fred Nerac officially is considered disappeared, since his forever found body. He would have been removed and killed by a militia of BAATH shortly after the shootings homicides étatsuniens.

There was only one survivor of the small team: the Belgian cameraman Daniel Demoustier.

An investigation into the circumstances of died of Terry Lloyd was held with Oxfordshire in 2006. The conclusions, deposited the October 13rd, ruled that the journalist was mortally reached with the back by shootings of the American army. The assistant Coroner Andrew Walker concluded with an illegal murder (according to the terms from the British law: ) and announced that the possibility of bringing continuations would be studied. The widow of Terry Lloyd, Lynn, reacted by qualifying the death of her husband of " War crime " and that the Marines should be brought in front of justice.

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