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Anthony Shadid
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New York, Feb. 17 (AP): New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under “shock and awe” bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, died yesterday of an asthma attack in Syria while reporting on the uprising against its President.
Shadid, 43, who survived a gunshot wound in the West Bank in 2002 and was captured for six days in Libya last year, was returning with smugglers from Syria to Turkey when he collapsed, the Times said.
Times photographer Tyler Hicks told the newspaper that Shadid had suffered one bout of asthma the first night, followed by a more severe attack a week later on the way out of the country. “I stood next to him and asked if he was OK, and then he collapsed,” Hicks told the Times.
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