Now they've done it... they've pissed off the JOURNALIST!

posted by admin on Tuesday April 08, @09:17AM

I guess that will kill the story of the gold fixtures in Saddams bathroom...

Press group slams US attack on journalists' Baghdad hotel

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemned a US attack on a Baghdad hotel that killed one cameraman and wounded four correspondents as a possible war crime.

The Brussels-based lobby group also accused the Iraqi regime of using journalists and other civilians as "human shields" and demanded that both sides in the war be punished under international law.

"There is no doubt at all that these attacks could be targeting journalists. If so, they are grave and serious violations of international law," said IFJ general secretary Aidan White.

"The bombing of hotels where journalists are staying and targeting of Arab media are particularly shocking events in a war which is being fought in the name of democracy," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s827705.htm

By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN

During the 43 days that comprised the Persian Gulf War in 1991, no journalists lost their lives in the conflict. The current war in Iraq, now just 21 days old, has claimed the lives of 10 journalists, three of whom were killed today in United States military strikes in Baghdad.

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Tariq Ayoub, a Jordanian journalist working for the Arab news service Al-Jazeera, died after two American missiles struck his company's headquarters in downtown Baghdad just after dawn today. Later in the day, about a mile across town, an American tank shelled Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where most foreign journalists are based, killing two television cameramen — Taras Protsyuk, 35, a Ukranian national working for Reuters, and Jose Couso, 37, of the Telecino Spanish television station, who was fatally injured in the attack.

American forces also reportedly fired on an office owned by Abu Dhabi Television, an Arab broadcasting network, this morning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/international/worldspecial/08CND-JOUR.html

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