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Tributes have been paid to two British TV journalists who were killed by a
car bomb in Iraq on Monday.
Camera
operator Paul Douglas, 48 and soundman James Brolan, 42, died filming in
Baghdad for US news network CBS. A colleague was left critically ill.
A colleague
of Douglas said he was "one of those people you wanted around" when the
situation got tough.
CCBS
London correspondent Mark Phillips said Douglas was "one of those people
you wanted around when things got dicey". "He could charm his way through
hostile country, he could defuse the belligerent tension at an armed
roadblock," he added.
Brolan's
family said he was the "best dad, the best husband and the best mate to be
with in a tight spot".
CBS
correspondent Kimberly Dozier was also injured in Monday's attack.
The three journalists - embedded with
the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division - were doing a Memorial
Day story about what life is like for the troops in Baghdad when an
explosives-packed car nearby suddenly blew up. Douglas, 48, and Brolan,
42, died at the scene of the explosion, which also killed a U.S. soldier
and an Iraqi interpreter and wounded six U.S. soldiers.
Dozier, Douglas and Brolan had been riding in an armored humvee but at the
time of the blast - in the Karada section of Baghdad - they were outside
on the street, accompanying troops who had stopped to inspect a checkpoint
manned by the Iraqi Army. They were wearing helmets, flak jackets and
protective eyeglasses when the bomb went off.
Douglas, who was British, leaves a wife, Linda; two daughters, Kelly, 29,
and Joanne, 26; and three grandchildren.
Brolan, who was also British, leaves a
wife, Geraldine, and two children, Sam, 17, and Agatha, 12. The bodies of
Douglas and Brolan are being flown to Kuwait where they will be met by
their families, Martin reports.
Douglas, 48, had worked for CBS News in
many countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda and Bosnia,
since the early 1990s.
Wife: Linda
Children; Kelly, Joanne
The following contribution is made by Kelly = Paul Douglas the
camerman killed in iraq in May, which you have mentioned on your
home page was my dad. I am Kelly douglas the eldest of his two
daughters. I would like to thank you for mentioning my dad I know
he would have been very proud as he had the Douglas crest sealed
into his ring which he was wearing at the time of his death, also
he had the crest tattooed on his arm. My Dad was a great man who
truly believed in the meaning of family, he married my mum when
they were both 19 and would have been married 30 years next Jan,
together they had myself and my younger sister Joanne and also
three grandchildren Charlie, Georgia and Kai.
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