Angie Carlson
War Coverage Will Be Censored to Suit Pentagon: Fisk
Tue Apr 8 16:49:18 2003
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Subject: AS WAR CRIMES PILE: 25 REPORTERS BESIEGED BY U.S. TANKS SEND SOS
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:11:45 -0500
From: Angie Carlson angie1@planetsos.com


Even with the slightest clue of the actual events and inner political jostling, it should be perfectly clear what the real reason is for the US establishment's great fuss about not joining the ICC or International Criminal Court--considering the record which makes succinct that it was sequential US establishments which primarily promoted and nurtured, the ICC, and up until the reign of the present Chicken-Hawk fascist administration. It is not a matter of approving or not approving of the ICC but it is a matter of fully comprehending WHY really the U.S. did not sign the treaty and being fully aware of the genuine reasons for its great hostilities to the ICC, at its advent. Of course the sad joke is on patriotic Americans who naively believe the current establishment is patriotic, Christian and Constitutional, when in fact it is quite the opposite and employs every mean to destroy any semblance of Constitutional legitimacy, that may be remaining. The US, drunk now with its utopian "grand strategy," insists in its breathtaking hubris, in being exempt to the laws it insisted other nations must uphold. Such mischief however, has just as interesting a way in turning on back stabbing, vindictive and hypocritical dreamers. The world and most importantly, the emerging powers, are taking detailed notes. The second article although somewhat old, is a good example of how feared and hated the truth is by this ruling and warring cabal, and as the first article relays, to the point of killing truth seekers. Remember the bombing of the Serbian TV station where over a dozen reporters were killed, and aljazeera's offices were bombed in Afghanistan. The dangers are terrible for honest journalists and I for one honor them greatly. ac

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-04/08/article11.shtml

The U.S. tank, left, deliberately moves its turret towards a hotel filled with journalists before firing from a bridge in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, April 8 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Following the tragic death of three reporters earlier Tuesday, April 8, in a U.S. tank attack on Palestine hotel - the residence of reporters - and bombing of Al-Jazeera office, a correspondent with Abu Dhabi TV issued an SOS to humanitarian organizations to rescue a group of journalists who are "surrounded" by U.S. tanks in the satellite channel's Baghdad offices.

The correspondent, Shaker Hamed, issued the call for help on Abu Dhabi TV saying that "25 journalists and technicians belonging to Abu Dhabi television and Qatari satellite television channel Al-Jazeera are surrounded in the offices of Abu Dhabi TV in Baghdad," Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

"We are surrounded in a military area where there are no civilians, with the exception of the Abu Dhabi TV team and a five people from Al-Jazeera," Hamed said, calling on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) "to intervene quickly to pull us out of this zone where missiles and shells are striking in an unbelievable way."

The correspondent also called for the help of the International Organization of Journalists, Reporters Sans Frontieres and the Arab Journalists Union to rescue them.

The offices are on a road along the banks of the Tigris River between the Mansur Hotel and the Iraqi planning ministry, not far from the Republican Palace compound where fierce fighting raged between U.S. and Iraqi troops early Tuesday.


One of Al-Jazzera's Baghdad correspondents, Tareq Ayyoub, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, Taras Protsyuk, and a cameraman for Spain's Telecinco, Jose Couso, http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-04/08/article05.shtml
were killed Tuesday in American attacks.

Dubai's Gulf News reported Tuesday that Shaker's older brother Jawad and two of his brother's children, Hamid, 13, and 12-year-old Khulood died in bombing by U.S. warplanes of the southern city of Nassiriya.

French TV Exposes Deliberate Targeting

France 3 TV footage showed U.S. tanks deliberately firing at Baghdad's media hotel killing two foreign reporters.

"They (U.S. tanks) headed there, moved their turrets and waited at least two minutes before opening fire," said Herve de Ploeg, the journalist who filmed the U.S. attack.

"I did not hear any shots in the direction of the tank, which was stationed at the west entrance of the Al-Jumhuriya (Republic) bridge, 600 meters (yards) northwest of the hotel," she averred.

The French TV channel had positioned two cameras in two rooms facing the bridge as of 6:30 am (0230 GMT).

"It had been very quiet for a moment. There was no shooting at all. Then I saw the turret turning in our direction and the carriage lifting. It faced the target," said De Ploeg.

"It was not a case of instinctive firing…I'm very specific because I was due to go on air," she explained.

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War Coverage Will Be Censored to Suit Pentagon: Fisk
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-02/26/article09.shtml


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