In Saudi Arabia, two BBC journalists were shot Sunday in a gun battle near Riyadh. Simon Cumbers, an Irish cameraman for the BBC was killed. BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner was seriously injured. They were filming the house of a member of Al Qaeda who was killed last year. Gardner is one of the BBC’s foremost experts on Al Qaeda.
BBC Journalists Shot in Saudi Arabia, One Killed
HeadlineJun 07, 2004