Personally I can´t really blame the tank crew, I don´t believe they shot the journalists on purpose "Hey, Joe, look, the photographer of that magazine is aiming a camera at us again". "Oh, really? He´s been following us around all day, Pete. Blast him."

But I think it is amusing that the spaniards actually prosecuted the case and didn´t back down.

They do have apoint though. It was a known fact that a few journalists were staying in that hotel and probably other measures should have been taken. Blasting and then asking questions is a bit too wild west for the XXI century.


Under the European Union Charter, Spanish Courts might have jurisdiction over crimes committed by European Union members against Spanish citizens within the European Union. However this alledge crime was committed by soldiers of a nation not in the European Union in a hostile war zone that was known to the Spanish Citizen to be a war zone that was not on Spanish soil.
Ah, redleg, don´t even go there. What jusrisdiction do the US have in Iraq? and they are there, staging elections, prosecuting their president and all the rest of it, so I can´t accept your point.

I´m kinda waiting to see what the Pentagon answer is. This could just degenerate into a flame war....

I do not like the current spanish president, BTW. He thinks he is smart when he isn´t.