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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (100053)	2/12/2005 2:33:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793706

I would be quite surprised of there was anything there - if by anything, you mean American soldiers deliberately shooting someone they knew was a journalist. I dunno. There are two scenarios that I think are plausible. One is the Palestine Hotel type scenario. Our military shot some artillery into a building knowing it was reporter city. I think that the phrase "target reporters" can be applied to that scenario. Not that they were deliberately trying to kill reporters, but "target reporters," is not out out of the ballpark when you use artillery on their home base. The other scenario is more deliberate. Do you really believe it's utterly impossible that some US soldier shot at, say, an al Jazeera reporter considering such reporters to be part of the terrorist family? There was a post on this thread the other day that al Jazeera is just that. Given the half million soldiers who have been in Iraq, is the possibility that one or more of them took out a reporter entirely out of the question?