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Simon Peter Cumbers (23 January 1968 – 6 June 2004) was an Irish-born freelance journalist working for the BBC who was murdered by Al Qaeda sympathisers while filming one of the terrorist group's safehouses near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Simon Cumber )〕 ==Career== Cumbers was educated in St. Patrick's Classical School in Navan, County Meath. He was editor of his school magazine, ''Tuairim'', and a local radio broadcaster with pirate radio station ''Royal County Radio''. While at St. Patrick's, Simon worked initially with the ''Drogheda Independent'' and the ''Ipswich Evening Star'', as a features writer, before becoming the Chief Reporter of Dublin's Capitol Radio (now called FM104). In 1990 Cumbers moved to the United Kingdom to work with a variety of British broadcasters, including Sky News, ITN, APTN, and the BBC. Cumbers worked both as a journalist and a producer. In the late 1990s he retrained and became a cameraman as well, establishing Locum Productions, to supply camera crews to broadcasters, together with his wife, BBC journalist Louise Bevan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Company profile )〕 Cumbers and BBC correspondent Frank Gardner were filming an Al Qaeda safehouse in Al-Suwaidi, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia when they were attacked.〔Bradley, John R. ''Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis''. Palgrave Macmillan 2005. 146-147.〕 Gardner was critically wounded while Cumbers died instantly from a gunshot wound to the head.〔 He was 36.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Cumbers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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