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Margaret Moth Dies of Colon Cancer at 59: War Photojournalist

by Jordan Yerman | March 22, 2010 at 09:27 am

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Margaret Moth, War Photographer, Dies at 59 from Colon Cancer

Margaret Moth, a CNN war photojournalist who worked in war zones for over twenty years, has died at age 59 from colon cancer. Margaret Moth was born Margaret Wilson, and changed her name to Margaret Gipsy Moth, after her love of they type of airplane from which she would skydive.

Margaret Moth on Cancer

Dying of cancer, I would have liked to think I'd have gone out with a bit more flair.

Margaret Moth

Margaret Moth, a native of New Zealand, had survived getting shot in the face in Sarajevo, and a hepatitis infection that resulted from the surgery, writing, "I want to go back to Sarajevo to look for my teeth".

Margaret Moth's colleagues write in tribute of her fearless work and her penchant for "awful" cigars and beer.

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Margaret Moth was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2007.

A few years later, I was paired with Margaret again, covering the second Palestinian intifada. Waiting to pass through the Kalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem in our armored car, we were approached by a young Palestinian street urchin selling little cloth hand puppets in the shape of a duck, which when squeezed, stuck our a plastic tongue, making an annoying squeak. Margaret insisted on buying one and dubbed it "Yaani," an Arabic word that means "it means." For years afterward, Yaani collected dust in the Jerusalem bureau armored car.

Source: cnn.com