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FOUR JOURNALISTS CONFIRMED KILLED IN AFGHAN AMBUSH
KABUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Four journalists including two from Reuters were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy, taking to seven the number of foreign correspondents killed covering the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, witnesses said on Tuesday.
Reuters journalists Harry Burton, an Australian television cameraman, and Azizullah Haidari, an Afghan-born photographer, both aged 33, had been reported missing after their convoy was stopped by six armed men on Monday near a bridge at Tangi Abrishum some 90 km (55 miles) east of the capital, Kabul.
Spanish journalist Julio Fuentes of El Mundo and Italian journalist Maria Grazia Cutuli of Corriere della Sera were the other two killed in the ambush. Their bodies were identified by colleagues on Tuesday in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
"That their deaths are cruel, senseless, a terrible waste, goes without saying," Reuters E***or-in-Chief Geert Linnebank said in a statement. "But their deaths also make us angry, outraged at what appears to be yet more cold-blooded executions of journalists going about their work," he added. "We owe it to them, to all the other colleagues who have lost their lives covering conflict, and also the hundreds of reporters who are at risk in the front line every day, to uphold their legacy," he said.
The journalists were travelling in an eight-car convoy from Jalalabad, near the Khyber Pass leading into Pakistan, en route for the Afghan capital Kabul. Reporters who escaped the ambush said the cars carrying the missing journalists were near the front of the motorcade. They were stopped by gunmen who forced the four journalists from their cars, beat them and hit them with stones. As other cars in the convoy turned back, gunshots were heard.
The bodies were brought back on Tuesday morning to Jalalabad, where they were identified by colleagues.
The Northern Alliance said 300 troops sent to recover the bodies clashed with unknown fighters on Monday evening near Sarobi township, some 60 km (40 miles) east of Kabul.
Deep concern
"We are devastated by the loss of our two colleagues in Afghanistan," Linnebank said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with their families, and with the families of the two journalists who died with them," he added. "We mourn the passing of two friends, consummate professionals who made a life of reporting the facts despite the risks and dangers that that brought with it."
Haidari was born in Kabul but spent half his life as a refugee in Pakistan. He started working for Reuters in Pakistan monitoring Afghan radio in August 1992 and went on to become a photographer with the agency.
After the retreat of the Taliban from Kabul, Haidari expressed hopes of returning to a city he had not seen for nearly 20 years. He leaves a Pakistani wife, a son and a daughter.
Burton, an Australian from Brisbane, began working for Reuters as a cameraman some 20 months ago. He made a name for himself in East Timor, covering the violence that swept the tiny former Portuguese colony when it voted to break free of Indonesian rule in 1999.
Madrid-based Fuentes, 46, had previously covered conflicts from El Salvador to Bosnia to Chechnya as a special correspondent for El Mundo. He joined the daily about 12 years ago and is married to another journalist on the paper.
Cutuli, 39, was born in the Sicilian city of Catania. She started to work for Il Corriere della Sera in 1997 after moving to Milan 10 years ago.
The province through which they were travelling was taken over by anti-Taliban tribal leaders last week, but pockets of Taliban and Arab fighters of the al Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden are believed to be roaming in many parts of the country.
Several convoys of journalists have driven to Kabul from Jalalabad in the past few days. One group of Filipino reporters said they had been held up and robbed on Sunday.
Three Western reporters were killed in northeast Afghanistan a week ago when Taliban forces ambushed fighters of the opposition Northern Alliance.
French radio reporters Johanne Sutton, 34, and Pierre Billaud, 31, and German journalist Volker Handloik, 40, a freelance working for Stern magazine, had been riding on the roof of an armoured personnel carrier when it came under fire.
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News Releases 20 November 2001
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Harry Andrew Burton and Azizullah Haidari
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Harry Burton, 33, an Australian cameraman, and Azizullah Haidari, 33, an Afghan-born photographer, were killed in an ambush on Monday 19 November in Afghanistan.
Burton and Haidari had been reported missing after their convoy was stopped by six armed men on Monday near a bridge at Tangi Abrishum some 90 km (55 miles) east of the capital, Kabul. They were travelling in an eight-car convoy from the eastern city of Jalalabad, near the Khyber Pass leading into Pakistan, on route for Kabul.

Spanish journalist Julio Fuentes of El Mundo and Italian journalist Maria Grazia Il Cutuli of Corriere della Sera were also killed in the ambush.

Geert Linnebank, Reuters E***or-in-Chief, said ?oWe are devastated by the loss of our two colleagues in Afghanistan. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families, and with the families of the two journalists who died with them somewhere on the road from Jalalabad to Kabul. We mourn the passing of two friends, consummate professionals who made a life of reporting the facts despite the risks and the dangers that brought with it.
?oBoth 33 years old, Harry and Aziz came from very different backgrounds - Aziz an Afghan refugee who joined Reuters in Pakistan in 1992 where he went on to become a news photographer; Harry an Australian cameraman based in Jakarta who made a name for himself covering the civil war in East Timor. What brought both of them to Reuters, and then to Afghanistan, was a shared belief that reporting the news can make a real difference.
?oThat their deaths are cruel, senseless, a terrible waste, goes without saying. But their deaths also make us angry, outraged at what appears to be yet more cold-blooded executions of journalists going about their work. The deaths of Harry and Aziz, and those of Julio Fuentes and Maria Grazia Cutuli, come just a week after three journalists died in an ambush on another road in Afghanistan. We owe it to them, to all the other colleagues who have lost their lives covering conflict, and also to the hundreds of journalists who are at risk in the front line every day, to uphold their legacy.?
Tom Glocer, Reuters Chief Executive, said ?oLike Kurt Schork last year and too many other Reuters journalists before, Aziz and Harry died fulfilling Reuters mission to report the news with fairness, accuracy and independence. Too often this requires our colleagues to risk their lives, despite the best precautions that we take as a company. We owe them a great debt as colleagues and as beneficiaries of their accurate and impartial reporting.
?oIt is a bitter irony that tonight I will attend an award ceremony in New York organized by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Mazen Dana, a Reuters cameraman will receive an award recognizing his work in the West Bank in the face of numerous attacks. Mazen's award is well deserved, but I will also be thinking of Harry and Aziz and the family and friends that they leave behind.?
Harry Burton
Harry Burton was a cameraman of courage.
He had worked for Reuters for almost two years in Jakarta, where he was known for capturing images which brought home to the world the human consequences of the brutality and violence of the ethnic, religious, and political strife in Indonesia.
Colleagues remember the 33-year-old Australian for his warm nature, easy-going manner, and his dedication and commitment to his work.
Harry Burton became a journalist after several jobs in the agriculture industry. In the late 1990s, he decided to take the plunge and follow his heart to become a television cameraman.

Arriving in Indonesia as part of that quest, he stayed in backpacker hostels for around one dollar a night, until he realised a dream of working in Asia as a cameraman.
His work in Indonesia included frontline line cover of East Timor's bloody breakaway from Indonesia in 1999. Graphic television images then of pro-Jakarta militias killing East Timorese independence supporters helped trigger international outrage, and finally United Nations intervention.
In East Timor, he spent a year in the territory after the pro-independence referendum, running the Reuters Television bureau in the capital Dili.
In Indonesia's Kalimantan province, he brought to the world's attention the ferocity of the tension between ethnic Malay and indigenous Dayak groups who were opposed to Madurese immigrants, documenting one episode in Indonesia's brutal bout of communal warfare.
His success in his new profession led him to cover the conflict in Afghanistan, following the 11 September suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the US Pentagon.
He arrived in Pakistan at the beginning of November and, after the dramatic fall of the ruling Taliban in Kabul, he was one of the first journalists to enter the strategic eastern town of Jalalabad. Burton filed several compelling film reports of locations where bin Laden's al Qaeda network was reported to have operated.
Harry Burton was born on January 23, 1968 in Brisbane, Australia. He graduated from Melbourne University in 1992 with a degree in agricultural science.
Azizullah Haidari
Azizullah Haidari was a 33-year-old Afghan who spent half his life as a refugee in
Pakistan, where he helped Reuters report the many trials of his homeland for almost ten years.
He started working with Reuters in Pakistan, monitoring Afghan radio in August 1992 and is remembered as a man of integrity, professional commitment and good humour.
He became a photo-journalist with little formal training and turned himself into a professional, driven by love of the craft. During the conflict in Afghanistan, he worked in the Pakistan border cities of Quetta and Peshawar and with his camera he chronicled the plight of other refugees, including striking images of suffering Afghan children caught in the war.
His reporting trip to Kabul this week would have taken him back to the city of his birth for the first time since 1983.
Azizullah Haidari migrated to Pakistan in the 1980s as one of more than three million Afghans who fled after the Soviet occupation of their country. He became a teacher to earn a living and support his parents in Islamabad, and married a Pakistani wife, with whom he has a son and daughter.
He joined Reuters months after Mujahideen guerrilla factions took power following the collapse of the Soviet-backed communist government, which heralded the start of a bitter civil war.
After the retreat of the fundamentalist Taliban from Kabul last week, Haidari, born on August 20, 1968 in Kabul, expressed hopes of returning to the homeland he had not seen for years.
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