The widow of the ITN reporter Terry Lloyd has called for a murder trial after a coroner ruled that he was unlawfully killed by US troops.
Andrew Walker, Oxfordshire's assistant deputy coroner, said he would write to the Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions "to see whether any steps can be taken to bring the perpetrators responsible for this to justice".
Mr Lloyd, 50, was killed, together with a Lebanese interpreter, Hussein Osman, and French cameraman, Fred Nerac, near the Shatt al Basra Bridge outside Basra on March 22, 2003, the coroner said.
Mr Lloyd was shot in the back after his vehicle - clearly marked "Press" - was caught up in US and Iraqi crossfire, then shot in the head by American forces as he was taken away in a minibus for medical treatment.
Mr Walker said: "I have no doubt that it was an unlawful act to fire on this minibus."
During the inquest footage of the attack, filmed by a cameraman attached to the American unit said to have fired on Mr Lloyd, was shown in public for the first time.
The film shows US tanks and soldiers inspecting the smouldering wreckage of Mr Lloyd's 4x4. It was released to the Royal Military Police by American authorities.
Speaking after the inquest, Mr Lloyd's family described his death as a "despicable and deliberate" act carried out by "trigger happy cowboys".
In a statement read by solicitor Louis Charalambous, the reporter's widow, Lynn, said: "This was a very serious war crime."
She said the soldiers involved should be brought to trial "under the Geneva Convention" for murder.
Mr Lloyd's daughter Chelsey said: "The killing of my father would seem to amount to murder, which is deeply shocking."
Among those who gave evidence at the inquest was Sir Trevor McDonald, the ITV news anchor and a long-standing friend of Mr Lloyd.
Close to tears, he said his colleague was not a risk-taker but a thorough professional anxious to get first-hand reports from the fighting.
The Pentagon has rejected the ruling, saying US troops in Iraq were following their rules of engagement when Mr Lloyd was killed.
"The Department of Defense has never deliberately targeted non-combatants, including journalists," the Pentagon said in a statement.
"We have always gone to extreme measures to avoid civilian casualties and collateral damage."
