Reply #16: Note that CNN is lying about the attack on the Baghdad office

[muriel_volestrangler]

On the video they say "Was it confirmed it was a US bomb?" "No, it wasn't, and Al Jazeera didn't even point any fingers".

That's a straight forward lie. There were immediate accusations, and everyone (eg Reporters Without Frontiers, or the Committe to Protect Journalists) reports it as a US bomb or missile. The US admitted it was targetted - but they claimed they were taking fire from the building.

Earlier in the day, two bombs hit the offices of al-Jazeera television during an American air raid. Abu Dhabi television nearby, whose identity is spelt out in large letters on the roof, also came under fire.

Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi are the only international TV stations with a permanent presence in Iraq. Al-Jazeera had previously sent the georgaphical coordinates of its office to the Pentagon in the hope of avoiding an American attack similar to the one that destroyed its office in Kabul during the Afghan war - but apparently to no avail.

Centcom claimed that US forces had come under fire from al-Jazeera's building.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/dailybriefing/story/0,12965,932947,00.html

This letter to the Pentagon and response confirm this.