James Brolan was a British

United Kingdom

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 freelance television

Television

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 sound technician, who was killed with cameraman Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas (cameraman)

Paul Douglas was a British CBS News cameraman, who, along with soundman James Brolan, was killed in an explosion in Iraq on 29 May 2006. CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was critically injured in the attack...

 in an explosion in Iraq

Iraq

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 on 29 May 2006 while working for CBS

CBS

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. CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier

Kimberly Dozier

Kimberly Dozier is a correspondent for the Associated Press, covering intelligence and counterterrorism. She was stationed in Baghdad as the chief reporter in Iraq for CBS News for nearly three years prior to being critically wounded on May 29, 2006.-Biography:Dozier was born in Honolulu, Hawaii,...

 was critically injured in this attack.

Brolan grew up in Holloway, London

Holloway, London

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, and attended St Joseph's RC Primary School, Holborn

Holborn

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 and St Aloysius College, Highgate

Highgate

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. He had served with the British Army, including tours of duty in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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.

Based in London, he was survived by his wife and two children.

External links

• "Two CBS crew members killed, a third seriously injured" at IFEX
  International Freedom of Expression Exchange
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