Freedom Fries While Baghdad Burns
Manuel Mendoza - 09.04.2003 12:06
A Swedish journalist speaks about what took place yesterday in Baghdad when US bombs killed several journalists at the Palestine Hotel ...
The British 'Guardian' newspaper is reporting that US commanders claim that ''significant enemy fire was coming from both the Palestine Hotel and Al-Jazeera building in downtown Baghdad'', attacked yesterday by US forces, killing three journalists and injuring several more. The US military claims its forces were using "inherent right of self-defense" and says it was ''unfortunate'' the buildings were being used by journalists. USCOM is trying to blame the journalists. One of the journalists killed, Tayab Ayoub was a colleague of FSRN correspondent Oula Farawati and a cameraman for Al Jazeera. Séverine Cazes, head of the Middle East Desk for Reporters Without Borders, spoke with KPFK saying the US is purposefully targeting the media outlets in Iraq. The following is an audio interview from Baghdad with Swedish Independent Journalist Urban Hamid about the events that took place yesterday ...
 http://webactive.com/freespeech/
Free Speech Radio News - (Progressive-Left Internet Radio)
An Al-Jazeera reporter on-air said he felt, as did his colleagues, the U.S. strike against the networks' offices in Baghdad was a deliberate attack against the network, since two missiles hit the building, not one, and that the raid happened at about the same time Abu Dhabi TV offices were hit...
http://www.cursor.org/aljazeera.htm
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