Anchor Lisa Mullins reports the death of an Afghan journalist who was killed today. Jawad Yazamy was ambushed by gunmen in Kandahar. He had been held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan as an enemy combatant, but proclaimed his innocence.
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LISA MULLINS: We have a sad footnote now to a story out of Afghanistan that we reported last September. It was about an Afghan journalist who had just been released from US detention in Afghanistan. His name was Jawad Yazamy, though most people knew him as Jo-Jo. He'd been held for 11 months as an enemy combatant. Yazamy proclaimed his innocence and he recounted for this program how US troops accused him of being linked with the Taliban.
JAWAD YAZAMY: I answer them, yes, I have connection to the Taliban as a journalist. I never did anything. I never supplied, you know, just, it's my right. It's my right, you know. I have right to talk with any organization, which I did.
MULLINS: Last September, Jo-Jo vowed to return to his work as a journalist in Afghanistan, and he did. He worked mostly for Canadian news outlets in and around Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. Today Jawad Yazamy was murdered. A car pulled up next to his and gunmen opened fire. He was 23 years old.
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