Reply #3: Pentagon seems to have closed the case on the Palestine Hotel

[QuietStorm]

according to this article

" Other issues likely to be discussed include U.S. soldiers' killings of journalists. On Apr. 8 tank troops shelled the Palestine Hotel, known to house members of the media reporting on the war, killing two journalists.

The same day, a U.S. air strike on Al-Jazeera satellite channel's Baghdad bureau killed a reporter.

Last week, the Pentagon (news - web sites) released a report that concluded the soldiers who attacked the hotel ”properly fired upon a suspected enemy hunter-killer team in a proportionate and justifiably measured response. The action was fully in accordance with the rules of engagement.”

AND THE US USED CLUSTER BOMBS AS WELL

cluster bombs didn't sound so discriminate to me. they sounded somewhat antiquated considering the high tech arsenal we had to choose from with no surety that all would go off on impact and could instead detonate latently. I thought it a very barbaric choice. Not a weapon for a liberation wherein the Iraqi peoples freedom what the rhetoric of the day. Like the use of Fletchette shell in the OT's. The claim is that IDF tries to keep civilian casuality down (we will forget for now about F-16's used against rock throwers), just like cluster bombs the use of fletchette pretty much insures indiscriminate killing with no real aiming on target evident with either choice of weapon.