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Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
Ayman al-Sahili, a Reuters cameraman, receives first aid after he was shot in the leg by a sniper loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad while filming on the front line in Syria's north city of Aleppo on Dec. 31.
By Reuters
A Reuters television cameraman was shot in the leg and wounded while filming on the front line in Syria's northern city of Aleppo on Monday.
Ayman al-Sahili, a Libyan citizen working as part of a Reuters multi-media reporting team, was hit by a rifle bullet fired from a distance. He was treated in Syria and then driven across the border to Turkey. His injury was not life-threatening.
The ambulance transporting Sahili to Turkey encountered an air strike in Aleppo and maneuvered into an alley until it was safe to continue the journey.
Syria was by far the most dangerous country for journalists in 2012, with 28 killed there during the year according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a watchdog group. Read the full story.
Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
Ayman al-Sahili is carried on a stretcher after he was wounded by a sniper loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad in Syria's north city of Aleppo on Dec. 31.
Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
Ayman al-Sahili is carried away in Syria's north city of Aleppo on Dec. 31.
Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter pulls a boy off the street as a sniper fires during fighting with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar el-Assad in Aleppo city on Dec. 31.
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He lucky is was a bullet! Because if it was a rock, he would've been dead.
Damon, I had that same Moth as my wall paper for a while.
That thing is bad ass . Huh?
Nice, and I thought I was insensitive.
I hope this ends soon. These people just want to be free.
I hope they let the radicals know they don't want masters any more.
remember,,,,, The children are the future.
Lovely, more violence and their killing children too. So much for the so called modern world we live.
Bad to worse.
Just more proof that Syrian forces do not care who they kill. They are after civilians, photographers, women, children, anything that moves within their zone of fire. Lack of selective target acquisition just proves again that Assad's boys are just hired murderers -- probably from Russia and Iran. War is Hell, folks. There is no other explanation.
if i am reading the news correctly it is the SUNNI's that are doing the killing of @!$%#IES, like in IRAQ, and it is the SUNNI'S that are the REBELS in SYRIA. so confusing as to who the U.S. is backing!
Once again as soon as we give them humanitarian aid to feed their people and they get all that they need for a year or so they will start the BS all over again and test a nuke! This seems to continue over and over. When will the world leaders learn from WWII? You cannot passify a tyrannt and expect them to live up to their word. As long as we keep givbing them free food and medical aid (that could go along way here in the U.S.), they will continue to have time and money for their military and nuclear goals.
Tell your elected officials to stop ALL foreign aid. We are broke and in dire debt, we should not be sendiong aid to N. Korea, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and other places. We need to fix our own country and replace our own bridges, highways, etc. We are getting ready to cut more from Americans due to debt and over spending and we are still sending aid to even China. Yes China still gets U.S. foreign aid. Time to end the stupidity and insanity in Washington...Stop all foreign aid now!!!
These people are crazy
How could anyone possibly know who the "sniper" was "loyal to"?
Call me skeptical, but I think this might just be the new "babies pulled from incubators" story....