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To: Lane3 who wrote (100389)	2/14/2005 1:16:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793670

I don't think that the lack of actions against journalist murderers informs this question at all. Yes, it does, if only to the limited effect of making it less likely that such events are common and/or commonly known. I agree that if the alleged events only occurred once or twice then lack of prosecution would mean little, if anything.

To: Lane3 who wrote (100389)	2/14/2005 1:25:47 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

Karen, But your comment: I don't think that the lack of actions against journalist murderers informs this question at all. is problematic in that there is an assumption that journalists are pure and that some have been deliberately killed by US forces. For example - at the Palestine Hotel, the US forces were fired upon. No one has come forward with tape or evidence to disprove this. Some journalists were killed, but might they have also been combatants or used by combatants as shields? Or could this simply be a mistake (aka Friendly Fire). With friendly fire episodes we kill our own. Do we do this on purpose? Hell no. So is the rate of journalist's deaths by coalition hands above or below the rate of soldiers deaths with friendly fire? What is the break down by embed vs non-embed. What about embed's with insurgents? Why do the accusers never bring out this highly relevant data? I can tell you why - it is because it shows nothing. If a graph showed a huge spike in journalists death with a category being anti-american, non-embed's it would be all over the NY Times and every foreign paper. This country is notorious at not keeping secrets. To assume that the 'brass' ordered or turned a blind eye to deliberate targeting is really getting to a black helicopter moment among the left. John