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

[ian i-contact]

what relevance does this story have for the Bristol indymedia list Tony ? - 
this list is for distributing info about Bristol indymedia & 
other  indymedia business ...its not a general news list.  There are other 
places /  lists where this story (interesting thought it is) would be 
better placed.

please keep it focused

cheers
ian


At 16:58 3/27/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> 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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