ChiTown Lady
12th March 2003, 09:19
Pentagon threatens to kill independent BBC journalists in Iraq
Kate Adie has covered many wars for the BBC,
http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm
She says the pentagon has threatened to destroy any independent journalists satellite uplink!
The US must be planning to commit all sorts of atrocities and blame them on Saddam because of his uniforms!
Well, what else are people supposed to think?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/stor...,890745,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,890745,00.html)
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Besides facing the vagaries of Arab states, al-Jazeera is also fearful of what the Americans might do to it in Iraq. During the Afghan war, two supposedly smart US bombs hit its office in Kabul and many suspect the attack was no accident. It happened at a strategic moment, just two hours before the Northern Alliance took over the city.
"We had put cameras on the roof to cover the whole of Kabul when the Northern Alliance took over," Ali says. "Later, we sent a letter to the Pentagon asking why they bombed our office and we got a funny reply saying they didn't know al-Jazeera had an office in Kabul. For the whole war, they knew it was there. It was the only source of information except for the CIA.
This time, the station is taking no chances. "We're giving the Americans the coordinates of our office in Baghdad and also the code of our signal to the satellite transponder," Ali says. "We will try to give the Americans the whole information about where we are in Baghdad, so there will be no excuse for bombing us. But we are worried."
(Edited by ChiTown Lady at 4:26 am on Mar. 12, 2003)
Kate Adie has covered many wars for the BBC,
http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm
She says the pentagon has threatened to destroy any independent journalists satellite uplink!
The US must be planning to commit all sorts of atrocities and blame them on Saddam because of his uniforms!
Well, what else are people supposed to think?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/stor...,890745,00.html (http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,890745,00.html)
quote:
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Besides facing the vagaries of Arab states, al-Jazeera is also fearful of what the Americans might do to it in Iraq. During the Afghan war, two supposedly smart US bombs hit its office in Kabul and many suspect the attack was no accident. It happened at a strategic moment, just two hours before the Northern Alliance took over the city.
"We had put cameras on the roof to cover the whole of Kabul when the Northern Alliance took over," Ali says. "Later, we sent a letter to the Pentagon asking why they bombed our office and we got a funny reply saying they didn't know al-Jazeera had an office in Kabul. For the whole war, they knew it was there. It was the only source of information except for the CIA.
This time, the station is taking no chances. "We're giving the Americans the coordinates of our office in Baghdad and also the code of our signal to the satellite transponder," Ali says. "We will try to give the Americans the whole information about where we are in Baghdad, so there will be no excuse for bombing us. But we are worried."
(Edited by ChiTown Lady at 4:26 am on Mar. 12, 2003)