Quote Originally Posted by Redleg
Two investigations have been conducted, one by the Military of the United States - and one by the Committe to Protect Journalists (..)
Yes, I am aware of it. We have one report from the U.S. Military (the perpetrator, hardly a credible judge) and one from the CPJ based solely on reporters' accounts. After the CPJ filed a FOA request for the Army report and got a sanitised version of it in early 2004, they were very disappointed. 'The failure of the U.S. military to provide an honest and open accounting of what occurred keeps alive questions about whether U.S. forces are taking the necessary steps to avoid endangering journalists' (CPJ executive director Ann Cooper).

I mean: come on, earlier in the morning of that same April 8th, the U.S. bombed the Al-Jazeera office in Bagdad (just like they had bombed the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul two years before) and killed their cameraman; half an hour later an American tank intentionally destroyed the Abu Dhabi TV office, and half an hour after that it fired at the Palestine and killed another two non-embedded journalists. That is a bit rich for a coincidence. I think Eason Jordan may have had a point when he remarked (during the Davos Forum 2005) that U.S. forces deliberately target journalists. This has to be investigated and the fact that the United States are not cooperating does not release other people from their obligations.