- 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.
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- "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.
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- "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.
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- 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".
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Ayub, a 34-year-old father of two, had been in Baghdad
for less than a week after leaving his usual base in Jordan.
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