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[Dhul Fiqar]

I just found it interesting to see the CNN reporters finally pissed off at the military. They've been kissing their ass sooo much with this embedded crap, always bringing these human interest stories about how these are the best guys in the world and crap like that.

Now they are calling them liars. Today most of the Western media was huddled together in the Palestine Hotel when a U.S. tank fired a rocket into a hotel room, killing at least one Spanish journalist and injuring others (the other two were I think Al Jazeera people who had their office blown up from the air today).

Now, the interesting part!

The army says it was taking RPG and sniper fire from EVERY floor of the hotel! CNN and BBC are basically saying this is a flat lie, their people were our on the balcony and heard not a single shot or RPG launch untill that American tank suddenly let rip into the hotel. One reporter put it like this:

"Number one is that there it's impossible that RPGs were launched because we were far out of RPG range, it was over a kilometer from the hotel to the tanks. Secondly, if there was some sort of silent sniper fire we couldn't hear, then it would be of absolutely no concern to a tank commander, and there is no point in firing small arms on tanks anyway. Thirdly, I happen to know that it's entirely impossible to tell where sniper fire is coming from when you're inside a tank one and a half kilometer away from the alleged source."

Basically this is turning into a PR nightmare for the Yanks.

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[Pete]

Do you have a link??

[chamo]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/098/world/...ed_in_U_:.shtml (http://www.boston.com/dailynews/098/world/Three_journalists_killed_in_U_:.shtml)

There is also the event where a American pilot bombed a convoy with Kurdish troops and Russian Diplomats as well as alot of journalists. One of the BBC's most recognised and popular journalists John Simpson was injured. I can't believe he wasn't very angry and talked very sypathetically, I always though he was a very good journalist. Full Story (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/07/MN255363.DTL)

Also, a British soldier described an American pilot of being "like a cowboy" when he bomb a British convoy and injuring him. Full Story (http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,179534-1-9,00.html)

Interesting how all of the friendly fire incidents have been commited by American forces.

[LOIC]

A correspondent for Al Jazeera has been killed too.

http://www.jordantimes.com/Tue/homenews/homenews11.htm

"Al Jazeera accused the US military of deliberately targeting its offices and recalled that the station's Kabul bureau had been hit in November 2001 during the US-led assault on Afghanistan."

[Subcomandante Marcos]

I was just watching my local news when i saw a complete report from a chilean reporter who was staying on the hotel, they also showed fight at a bridge and on the city.

All i was capable of thinking was how can this be possible, how can the greatest nation on the whole world kill innnocent people just because it want total wold domination ??

The savage manner the U$ us using to insure control is primitive. In Basora hundreds flooded the streets on a riot destroying everything and how the U$ stood by, this was unbereable.

I wonder if the american think the iraki people will just let be submitted by this occidental men, i think not, and how is the U$ going to react to this ?? easy, just imprison everyone alegating National Security causes and it wont show on the news.

What will future generations make out of this period ??

Will it be seen as the liberation of a country by the greatest nation ever, or unjustified killing of innocent people ever to take place ??

[Dhul Fiqar]

As if to pay homage to American military ignorance, CNN today played the tape of an incident where a bomber dropped a huge payload on some American special forces, I missed the beginning so not sure if it was Afghanistan or Iraq.

You can hear them talking, saying they've let the bombs go. Then you see them hit a group of little dots (people) on the video screen and everything seems to suddenly evaporate in the explosion, and you hear from the cockpit:
"Jeez.... I hope that was the right thing to do."

The co-pilot: "Yup, sure hope so."

[ChiTown Lady]

This is EXACTLY what I read in the BBC – there was absolutely NO gunfire coming from the hotel whatsoever. The whole story of sniper fire coming from the hotel is pure propaganda bullshit – plain and simple.

I personally did not read the accounts of this from CNN, simply because I STOPPED reading and watching US media accounts of this who fiasco weeks ago when it became evident that the US media was being highly edited and censored.

The Al-Jazeera office having been bombed was also of no surprise to me. It was just a matter of time before that was going to happen. This shit also happened in the last Gulf War attack on Iraq. In fact Al-Jazeera has been making a specific point of letting the US Military know exactly where their offices were this time so that they would have no excuse for bombing them AGAIN, under the pretext that they didn’t know that their offices were there. So, this being the case, it is clear in my eyes that this bombing was very deliberate.

And I read an account of the Kurdish forces having been bombed by the US American – and the embedded British correspondent was EXTREMELY pissed off when he was reporting that shit, as well he should have been.

Anything in the name of censorship of media – you know, no matter how many innocents are killed to this end. This seems to be the theme here in the US these days. The media here is being highly edited and censored, and mostly all we get here is humanitarian stories and pictures of soldiers holding Iraqi babies while their mamas pass the checkpoints etc. This whole thing is a chock of shit.

The US media has little if any credibility at this point, as far as I can see.

This is coming form a US American, as I was born and raised in Chicago. This country makes me sick to my stomach. I hate the United States and all that it stands for.

Notice how I speak of the country of my birth in the third person, as if it is not even my own.