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To: Alighieri who wrote (222505)3/7/2005 12:30:32 PM
From: longnshort  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574261
 
They were shooting at the engine block, if they wanted to take her out they would of aimed for the passanger compartment



To: Alighieri who wrote (222505)3/7/2005 2:09:03 PM
From: boris_a  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574261
 
the idea that she was targeted.

The idea of a targeted killing of jounalists in Iraq is not a recent one. Hint: CNN, Eason Jordan.

There's some more stuff here: rigorousintuition.blogspot.com

"Robert Fisk, had this to say in April, 2003, about the deaths of several colleagues:

First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters television bureau in Baghdad, killing one of its cameramen and a cameraman for Spain's Tele 5 channel and wounding four other members of the Reuters staff.
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Back in 2001, the United States fired a cruise missile at al-Jazeera's office in Kabul – from which tapes of Osama bin Laden had been broadcast around the world. No explanation was ever given for this extraordinary attack on the night before the city's "liberation"; the Kabul correspondent, Taiseer Alouni, was unhurt. By the strange coincidence of journalism, Mr Alouni was in the Baghdad office yesterday to endure the USAF's second attack on al-Jazeera.

Far more disturbing, however, is the fact that the al-Jazeera network – the freest Arab television station, which has incurred the fury of both the Americans and the Iraqi authorities for its live coverage of the war – gave the Pentagon the co-ordinates of its Baghdad office two months ago and received assurances that the bureau would not be attacked.

The year 2004 was the bloodiest on record for journalists, with much thanks to US forces in Iraq. How many of those deaths can incompetence explain? And when does Eason Jordan get back his job?"