Marie Colvin lawsuit: Slain reporter’s family says Syrian forces targeted her

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Marie Colvin lawsuit: Slain reporter’s family says Syrian forces targeted her

In this May 16, 2012, file photo, a choir performs a hymn during the memorial service for Marie Colvin, the Sunday Times war correspondent who was killed in Homs, Syria on Feb. 22, at St Martin-in-the-Fields church in central London. ... more >
 By Deb Riechmann - Associated Press - Monday, April 9, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — Syria President Bashar Assad’s forces targeted veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin and then celebrated after they learned their rockets had killed her, according to a sworn statement a former Syrian intelligence officer made in a wrongful death suit filed by her relatives.

New court documents unsealed Monday include the statement by the officer, who has defected from the war-ravaged nation. The intelligence defector, codenamed Ulysses, provides a detailed account of how Assad’s military and intelligence officials sought to capture or kill journalists and media activists in Homs, a center of the pro-democratic revolution that erupted across Syria in the spring of 2011.

He said that when Colvin’s death was confirmed, Syrian Maj. Gen. Rafiq Shahadah exclaimed: “Marie Colvin was a dog and now she’s dead. Let the Americans help her now.”

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