Philip Reeves
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM
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Marie Colvin, an American who was the Sunday Times of London's chief war correspondent for a quarter of a century, was killed Wednesday. Colvin was in the embattled Syrian city of Homs and died alongside a French photojournalist and one of Syria's best known citizen journalists. All three died in a district of Homs which has been under bombardment by Syrian government forces since early this month.
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