With the death of Hamer, 18 reporters have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Death of a Mirrorman
The Daily Mirror remembers one of its colleagues, defence correspondent Rupert Hamer, 39, the first British journalist to die covering the war in Afghanistan, now in its ninth year.
With the death of Hamer, 18 reporters have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
With the death of Hamer, 18 reporters have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
