Description:Chapters: Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton, Michelle Lang, Volker Handloik, Abdul Samad Rohani, Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carsten Thomassen (15 May 1969 - 14 January 2008) was a respected Norwegian journalist, political commentator and war correspondent for the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet. He had earlier covered the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake from Thailand and Indonesia. He was killed in the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. On 14 January 2008, Thomassen was covering Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store's visit to Kabul. Store and his entourage were staying in the Serena Hotel, as were several foreign reporters and diplomats. While Thomassen was waiting to meet Store in the lobby, at least two Talibani terrorists forced their way into the Serena Hotel by killing the guards posted outside the main entrance using hand grenades. At least one of the terrorists was dressed in an Afghan police uniform, which may have delayed the reaction of the PST bodyguards inside the hotel. Thomassen was wounded in the arm, leg and stomach. Once the firing died down, he received first aid from VG photographer Harald Henden, Aftenposten reporter Tor Arne Andreassen, and other unnamed reporters from Verdens Gang and TV2. In the confusion following the attack, he was not evacuated until almost two hours after the attack. He went into shock in the ambulance, and died shortly after while undergoing surgery at a nearby field hospital operated by Czech ISAF forces. Due to the nature of his injuries, it is doubtful that he would have survived even if he had been evacuated earlier. At least six other people were killed in the attack, in addition to the terrorists thems...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=152516We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journalists Killed While Covering the War in Afghanistan (2001-Present): Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton. To get started finding Journalists Killed While Covering the War in Afghanistan (2001-Present): Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
34
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157206301
Journalists Killed While Covering the War in Afghanistan (2001-Present): Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton
Description: Chapters: Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton, Michelle Lang, Volker Handloik, Abdul Samad Rohani, Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton, . Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carsten Thomassen (15 May 1969 - 14 January 2008) was a respected Norwegian journalist, political commentator and war correspondent for the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet. He had earlier covered the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake from Thailand and Indonesia. He was killed in the 2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack in Kabul, Afghanistan. On 14 January 2008, Thomassen was covering Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store's visit to Kabul. Store and his entourage were staying in the Serena Hotel, as were several foreign reporters and diplomats. While Thomassen was waiting to meet Store in the lobby, at least two Talibani terrorists forced their way into the Serena Hotel by killing the guards posted outside the main entrance using hand grenades. At least one of the terrorists was dressed in an Afghan police uniform, which may have delayed the reaction of the PST bodyguards inside the hotel. Thomassen was wounded in the arm, leg and stomach. Once the firing died down, he received first aid from VG photographer Harald Henden, Aftenposten reporter Tor Arne Andreassen, and other unnamed reporters from Verdens Gang and TV2. In the confusion following the attack, he was not evacuated until almost two hours after the attack. He went into shock in the ambulance, and died shortly after while undergoing surgery at a nearby field hospital operated by Czech ISAF forces. Due to the nature of his injuries, it is doubtful that he would have survived even if he had been evacuated earlier. At least six other people were killed in the attack, in addition to the terrorists thems...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=152516We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Journalists Killed While Covering the War in Afghanistan (2001-Present): Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton. To get started finding Journalists Killed While Covering the War in Afghanistan (2001-Present): Carsten Thomassen, Sultan Munadi, Rupert Hamer, Harry Burton, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.