First, the Al-Jazeera office, now the Palestine Hotel, which is rooming hundreds of journalists. I swear the U.S. is directly targeting journalists--the less people to report atrocities the better!
US claims killings were 'self defence'Julia Day
Tuesday April 8, 2003US commanders have claimed "significant enemy fire" was coming from both the Palestine Hotel and al-Jazeera buildings attacked by US forces, killing three journalists and injuring several more.
The US military claims its forces were using the "inherent right of self-defence" in returning fire, and blamed the tragedies on the Iraqi regime's strategy of using civilian buildings for military purposes.
It says it was "unfortunate" that the buildings were being used by journalists.