Keep Tomkins In Your Thoughts

Former UPI White House Reporter Richard Tomkins vowed to return to Iraq and embed with U.S. troops when UPI shutdown it’s White House bureau on the very day in July that the new press briefing room was opened.

He did as he promised in early November, stringing for a number of news organizations.

On Tuesday, Jan. 8, while at the head of a column in a new push to oust al-Qaida from Diyala province, he was blown up by an IED.

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