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Journo's wife curses war backers
08/04/2003 21:37 - (SA)
Doha - The widow of a correspondent for the Arab satellite television Al-Jazeera killed in a US missile attack in Baghdad on Tuesday cursed anyone who supports the US-led war in Iraq.
"My prayer for Tareq is that his blood be a curse for those who help the Americans, the Jews and the English to strike our families in Iraq and Palestine," said Dima Tahbub, weeping, shown on the Qatar-based channel.
"I dedicate (the life of) my husband to our families in Palestine and in Iraq," said the widow of Tareq Ayub, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin.
Tahbub said she wanted her dead husband's body repatriated to be buried in Jordan, "near the Palestine which he loved and for which he was ready to sacrifice himself".
Ayub died of his injuries following a US missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices, the Arabic news channel said. A cameraman was hit in the neck by shrapnel in the blast, which the network charged was a deliberate strike.
But a US military spokesperson denied the missile strike was intentional. "We did not target al-Jazeera. We only target legitimate military targets," said Major Rumi Nielson-Green at US forward headquarters in Qatar.
Ayub, a 34-year-old father of two, had been in Baghdad for less than a week after leaving his usual base in Jordan.
- AFX
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