AP Photographer’s Killer Given Death Sentence in Kabul
By David Walker
Anja Niedringhaus in 2005. ©Associated Press/Peter Dejong
The Afghan police officer charged with killing Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding veteran AP correspondent Kathy Gannon last April has been sentenced to death by a panel of judges in Kabul, the Associated Press has reported.
Niedringhaus and Gannon were traveling under the protection of Afghan forces with a convoy of election workers near the border of Pakistan when the police officer approached them, yelled “Allahu Akbar” — God is Great — and opened fire on them with an AK-47 rifle.
The officer, identified in press reports as Naqibullah, was sentenced …read more
Via: PDN Pulse
