regarding palestine hotel:
The tank was 1.25 to 1.5 miles away on the bridge into the city (as reported by NPR reporter). Said reporter also stated that there was no action within a mile radius of the hotel at the time of the incident. Also said that there was no fire heard from hotel.
Fox news says tank was 1/2 mile away, BBC says French cameraman has incident on tape. 1/2 mile is a tough shot for a sniper isn't it? My understanding also is that a RPG has a range of about 1,000 yards. I think that the journalists would have noticed mortar fire being launched from the lobby.
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Journalists from three Western television networks told CNN they were in the Palestine Hotel when the tank fired and saw no outgoing fire from the hotel.
The U.S. Central Command said U.S. forces came under "significant enemy fire" from both buildings and responded "consistent with the inherent right of self-defense."
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Some U.S. troops said they took fire from snipers on the rooftop of the hotel, while Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said the fire came from the lobby area. He later said it was uncertain where it came from.
Other soldiers said tanks were taking mortar and grenade fire from in front of the hotel, and saw binoculars trained on them from an upper floor. Suspecting a "spotter" post, they fired.
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Faleh Kheibar, a photographer for Reuters, said he was trying to take a picture of a U.S. helicopter hovering over Baghdad when the shell hit the 15th-floor suite.
"I changed my place just seconds before the blast," he said. He was wounded by shrapnel on his forehead and left cheek. Inside the suite, blood and damaged equipment was strewn on the floors.
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"There must have been 50 cameras on the balconies," said AP photographer Jerome Delay, who was on top floor. "How can they spot someone with binoculars and not cameras?"
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Rather than admit to making a
grave error in judgement or perception... they let loose with the "significant" fire song and dance. USA makes no mistakes when it comes to war.
The same line of BS that all too many people will gobble up like candy.
Makes you wonder if Al Jazeera is blowing things out of proportion when they report the civilian attrocities. If some perceived sniper fire from a building 1/2 mile away in a populated area warrants a tank to unload on any ole building... I don't doubt that civilians are getting pulverized.
Again... I could care less about them really. Stack them 15 feet deep in the streets if it means the life of one serviceman. I know that sounds harsh... it is meant to. I am not upset that troops are over there fighting... I am upset at how they got there and the reasons they are over there. I am also disturbed at the typical Americans appetite for BS.
Regarding the Al Jazeera bombing...
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Al-Jazeera said its correspondent Tareq Ayoub died and a cameraman was injured when two missiles hit its office, virtually destroying it.
Reporting from Iraq is fraught with danger
US military officials said the building was struck by mistake. In November 2001, American warplanes mistakenly bombed the offices of the same broadcaster in Kabul, Afghanistan during the US-led campaign to oust the Taleban.
"It is something we all regret. But I don't believe that it is possible that it was deliberate," US State Department spokesman Nabil Khoury said.
But the Reporters Without Borders pressure group said al-Jazeera had been careful to inform the Americans of the exact location of its offices and demanded an inquiry into the attack.
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The rest of the world does a better job telling truth from fiction... and the hatred grows. I doubt we'll ever see "yellow" again on that retarded scale the gov uses to warn of terrosim .
as Egon from ghost busters says "It could be bad"
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