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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11I am shocked at the lack of response of the mainstream media to the news that their colleagues are being slaughtered. Although journos lives are worth no more or no less than others, it is disturbing to see such open hostility to the press embedded in the Palestine Hotel.
Just think of the outcry were Iraqi troops killing journalists?
Guess what, any normally protected entity, such as a mosque or cultural site can lose its protection if the enemy uses it in a way that makes it a military target.
Therefore, its not the Americans that are to blame for the hotel being fired on, its the Iraqis militia who have stripped the hotel of its protection.
And they weren't to blame for directing their aircraft and artillery at the hotel either.
They never bombed or shelled the palestine hotel until they were getting shot at from it. If they had, every Iraqi official and western journalist would have told you about it. I'm willing to bet they still haven't. Sounds like they used a tank to attack a concentration of militia firing at them from one spot.
What part of "LEAVE THE HOPTEL" didn't or don't they understand. Go to a war zone and it can be hazardous to your health. By remaining, the media allowed a sniper to use them as a shield from a tank - that's just stupid. The U.S. cannot protect people from their own stupidity. The left's inability to accept personal responsibility is incredulous. Again, the news media was previously advised to leave
They just got fed up of the lousey coverage,the bitchin pain in the ass"war" reporters???
Reporters in a combat zone are as welcome to the average grunt as a Rasta band at a klu klux klan rally.
I am about to massacre a large number of people. I demand that all media and independent observers leave the vicinity or they too will be massacred. Is that okay?
You make me sick. Any media worth its salt does not take orders from generals.
Chekov
Don't rise to the right wing taunts here. Sit it out and take pride in the fact that come the next resource war, they will be hiding behind their 'principles' for war.
Surprise, Surprise!!! US army bombs AL-Jazeera office and kills one person. Just like they bombed the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul last year.
They also fired a tank round at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad and killed two camera men. Sky News is busy covering up for this, when they announce the news on the TV they keep repeating the US claim that Iraqi troops fired from the lobby of the Hotel and then they refuse to report that their own reporter (David Chater)said earlier that no shots had been fired from the hotel. He also asked why the tank fired at the 15th floor of the hotel when they said the "shots" were coming from the lobby. Sky News is now trying to portray the attack as "friendly fire".
Genevea Convention anyone???
Sky News host asks US army spokesman "are incidents like this unavoidable in war", he got the answer he was looking for
Re above pro-war comments, you already know the US army are liars (babies thrown from incubators in 1990?) , all journalists in the hotel have siad there was no shooting from the hotel, they also said the army had been near the hotel for the past 24 hours and knew it was the media HQ
cos on Pat Kenny (or news at one i cant remeber) they had a Sky news woman on, and she said that she was pretty sure that no-one fired from the hotel. mind you, even if they had, she said that the nearest us forces were 2 kilometers away. i dont think iraqi rifles have that kind of range. maybe they got 'intelligence information' that 'senior regime members' were meeting in the hotel? as for the al jazeera building, two aerial missles hit it - what were the 'snipers' firing at planes in the sky or what?
maybe al qaeda thought there were 'senior regime members' meeting in the WTC? thus making it a legimate target in the holy war.
incidently, isnt it illegal, under geeneva, to kill the head of a state? if so, why are they trying to kill sadam?