Sheesh! Don't you watch the news?
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:12:50 -0400
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] tank blasts journos' hotel
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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> [if they're doing this to journalists, what are they
> doing to ordinary Iraqis?]
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> Reuters Journalist Killed in Baghdad Hotel Blast 1
> hour, 57 minutes ago
>
> BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A Reuters journalist was killed
> and three were
> wounded in Baghdad on Tuesday when a U.S. tank fired
> a shell at the
> media hotel where they were working.
>
> A Spanish journalist was also wounded.
>
> Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian
> national based in
> Warsaw, died after the blast at the Palestine Hotel,
> base for much of
> the foreign media in the Iraqi capital.
>
> U.S. forces said one of their tanks had fired on the
> hotel after
> taking incoming sniper and rocket fire, though
> journalists reported
> hearing no such fire from the hotel.
>
> U.S. military officials expressed regret at the
> incident.
>
> "A tank was receiving small arms fire and RPG
> (rocket-propelled
> grenade) fire from the hotel and engaged the target
> with one tank
> round," General Buford Blount, commander of the U.S.
> 3rd Infantry
> Division in Baghdad, told Reuters.
>
> Samia Nakhoul, Lebanese-born Gulf bureau chief for
> Reuters, and Iraqi
> photographer Faleh Kheiber were both treated in
> hospital for facial
> and head wounds and concussion. Doctors said their
> injuries were not
> serious.
>
> Television satellite dish coordinator Paul Pasquale,
> from Britain,
> was taken to hospital with leg injuries but doctors
> said he was not
> in danger.
>
> The four were part of the 18-member Reuters team in
> Baghdad.
>
> "We are devastated by the death of Taras, who had
> distinguished
> himself with his highly professional coverage in
> some of the most
> violent conflicts of the past decade," said Reuters
> Editor-in-Chief
> Geert Linnebank.
>
> He had reported from Chechnya (news - web sites),
> Afghanistan (news -
> web sites) and the Balkans.
>
> Madrid's Telecinco television said that its
> cameraman, Jose Couso,
> was wounded in the jaw and leg and was taken to
> hospital, where he
> underwent surgery for shrapnel wounds.
>
> U.S. officials said their forces had been fired on
> from the hotel but
> a British reporter there who saw the tank take aim
> said he had heard
> no other firing.
>
> "I never heard a single shot coming from any of the
> area around here,
> certainly not from the hotel," British Sky
> television's correspondent
> David Chater said.
>
> The blast struck an upper floor of the high-rise
> building on the
> eastern banks of the Tigris river.
>
> U.S. tanks, artillery and warplanes have been
> pounding Iraqi forces
>
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