Reply #21: Will the Pentagon Target Journalists in Iraq?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

Will the Pentagon Target Journalists in Iraq? An Interview with Veteran BBC War Correspondent Kate Adie

From democracy now

Friday, March 14th, 2003

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In an interview on Irish Radio last Sunday, veteran BBC war correspondent Kate Adie said a senior Pentagon official told her that US planes will target any electronic communications on the ground, even if they are operated by journalists.

Adie also said that when she questioned the Pentagon official about the consequences of targeting journalists, the senior Pentagon officer replied QUOTE: "Who cares? . . . They've been warned."

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0321256

Embedded, Restricted, Dead
They Shoot Journalists, Don't They

by Norman Solomon

March 11, 2004

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On April 8, during a pair of assaults, the U.S. military killed three journalists and wounded several more. In mid-August, American forces killed an award-winning cameraman. CPJ's report includes summaries of those events, and -- if you read between the lines -- they shed a lot of light on the Pentagon's lethally cavalier attitude.

* "In the first attack, a U.S. warplane struck an electricity generator outside the Baghdad bureau of the Qatar-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, killing reporter Tareq Ayyoub. The attack occurred in an area of heavy fighting, although Al-Jazeera noted that it had provided the Pentagon with the coordinates of its offices weeks before the incident. The nearby office of Abu Dhabi TV also came under U.S. fire at the time. In October, a U.S. military spokesman acknowledged to CPJ that no investigation into the incident was ever launched."

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http://www.counterpunch.org/solomon03112004.html