ABC Journos Killed: World News Airs One Of Their Last Stories

By Brian 

Charles Gibson at the top of Friday’s World News:

“Good evening. In the more than four years of war in Iraq, more than 3,400 American families now have gotten the dreaded knock on the door — learning that a family member had been killed. Today we got a knock on ours.

Early this morning we learned two of our Iraqi employees, cameraman Alaa Aziz and soundman Saif Yousef, had been kidnapped and executed on their way home from work last night.”

Terry McCarthy had two reports. The first one about Aziz and Yousef. Then ABC aired what was, in Gibson’s words, “one of the last stories they covered.” Here it is…

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