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to report, the news nets were still recycling the
big story. The Post must not have heard or
believe the banter about who is supposed to be
controlling Iraq when it captioned a photo of US
soldiers having a smoke yesterday in one of Saddam’s
palaces. “MEET THE NEW OWNERS,” it
says. Funny, how reality creeps through the fog
of “journalism.”
The latest: Bush doesn’t know
AS of 8 a.m. EDT today, CNN was reporting: Bush
said “Saddam Hussein will be gone. It might have
been yesterday, I don’t know.”
“Central Command: Marines attack, seize
Rasheed military airfield in southeastern Baghdad.
“Abu Dhabi TV: Firefight near presidential
compound in Baghdad; Coalition tanks take up
position on nearby bridge.”
Al-Jazeera bombed (again!)
EMBEDDED: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
THE war against Al Jazeera has claimed a life,
CNN reports. “Al-Jazeera TV says one of its
journalists was killed Tuesday when a U.S. air
strike hit a building housing Arab media, the
Arab network said. The reporter, identified as
Tariq Ayoub, was carried along the street in a
blanket before being placed in the back of an
Abu Dhabi TV vehicle and being rushed off for
medical treatment.
“An Al-Jazeera reporter on-air said he felt, as
did his colleagues, the U.S. strike 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.” A US missile also previously hit
180
al-Jazeera offices in Afghanistan by “mistake.”
A media freedom group in Jordan condemned
the attack and “criticized the US expression of
regret and excuses over its attacks on journalists
and media, describing what took place as a
“crime against humanity and a clear violation of
international law,” adding that those who committed
them should not be allowed to avoid punishment.
“The organization demanded the international
community and international bodies defending
human rights to establish committees to investigate
into those violations.
“In the same context, CDFJ criticized the
media coverage carried out by some of the US
media outlets describing it as being “biased” and
failing to respect objectivity and ethics while
turning into entities that advocates for war as
well as defending violations that U.S. and British
troops are committing against innocent victims.”
More journalists targeted
ALSO this morning, Ann Garrels of NPR
reported from the Palestine Hotel, the media
headquarters in Baghdad, that a US tank shell
was fired into the 15th floor, with at least four
media colleagues wounded. This is preliminary
information phoned into the Media Channel. A
US soldier reportedly said he saw people with
binoculars in the hotel and thought they were
being fired on. Garrels said she heard no gunfire,
but noted that many reporters were watching
the battle with binoculars.
Is this a a war?
HERE’S Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker to