[IMC-bristol] Pentagon_‘threatens_to_fire_on_reporters’

[Always Shariff]

Hi,
Yeah right disturbibg init? Check this out from the WSWS, which goes like:
"The tragic death of veteran British ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd, who
was killed by American troops last Saturday on the southern Iraq warfront,
raises disturbing questions about how far the Bush and Blair governments will
go to suppress independent reporting of the US-led invasion......"
Have a peek at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/jour-m25_prn.shtml
for further reading.
'Aving it
Always
ps Sorry if you already know about this ;o{.
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--- Tony Gosling <bristol@nuj.org.uk> 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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