[IMC-bristol] Pentagon ‘threatens to fire on reporters’

[Tony Gosling]

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 From London Freelance Branch, NUJ

Pentagon 'threatens to fire on reporters'
http://media.gn.apc.org/fl/0304war.html

The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of 
independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent 
Kate Adie.

"I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon," she said, "that if 
uplinks - that is the television signals out of... Bhagdad, for example - 
were detected by any planes ... above Bhagdad... they'd be fired down on. 
Even if they were journalists," she told The Sunday Show on Irish public 
radio network RTE. She said the source responded to her concern with "Who 
cares... They've been warned."

Recall for context that when the Al-Jazeera studio in Kabul was bombed it 
was suggested that the weapons had simply homed in on radio signals without 
caring who was transmitting. More follows as soon as we have it...

Sources:
Programme audio from RTE
http://wwa.rte.ie/rams/radio/sundayshow.ram
Story from The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29750.html



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