Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Che l'assassinio di giornalisti stia per diventare "diritto di guerra"?

http://www.ifj.org/en/articles/ifj-condemns-intolerable-injustice-as-report-exposes-united-states-targeting-and-killing-of-journalists-in-iraq
May 15, 2008
IFJ Condemns "Intolerable Injustice" as Report Exposes United States 
Targeting and Killing of Journalists in Iraq
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today  called on the 
United States to "tell the whole truth" about the killing of journalists 
by its soldiers in Iraq after a military source claimed that the US army 
deliberately targeted a media hotel in Baghdad leading to the death of 
two journalists at the start of the war.
The attack by a US tank on the Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad on 
April 8th 2003, the day before Baghdad fell, led to the killing of 
Spanish journalist Jose Couso, a cameraman for the network Telecinco, 
and Ukraine-born Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk. A number of others 
were injured in the hotel which was home to around 150 journalists and 
media staff at the time.
This week in a dramatic revelation to the internet news and current 
affairs broadcaster Democracy Now! former army Sgt. Adrienne Kinne 
reveals she saw secret US military documents that listed the hotel as a 
possible target, exposing as a cover-up the United States claim that the 
attack on the hotel was an accident
She also claims she was personally ordered to eavesdrop on Americans 
working for news media and NGOs working in Iraq.
The IFJ has led a five-year campaign over the killings at the Palestine 
Hotel calling for a full investigation into the incident and disputing 
strongly the claims of the United States, first that the attack was in 
response to hostile fire from the hotel (later dropped) and then that 
the attack was an innocent mistake in the heat of battle.
"Slowly the awful truth about the events of that day are emerging," said 
Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "This latest information adds to our 
concern that the failure to properly investigate and report on this 
attack is covering up the reality that the United States was recklessly 
putting media lives at risk."
The need for full disclosure is further reinforced says the IFJ by  the 
decision of a Spanish court on Tuesday to throw out murder charges 
against three US soldiers accused of killing Jose Couso at the Palestine 
Hotel, citing grounds of "insufficient evidence." The National Court in 
Madrid scrapped the charges laid by Judge Santiago Pedraz in April 2007 
against US Sergeant Thomas Gibson, Captain Philip Wolford and Lieutenant 
Colonel Philip de Camp ordering the case to be definitively dismissed. 
"Efforts to achieve justice have been actively thwarted by the 
scandalous refusal of the United States to co-operate with the courts in 
providing information," said White.
The IFJ also says that the US airstrike attack on the offices of the 
Arab satellite channel Aljazeera on the morning of the same day which 
led to the death of reporter Tareq Ayyoub has never been properly 
explained. The US is also under fire over the killing of the UK 
television journalist Terry Lloyd in Basra at the start of the war. 
Three members of an ITN news team, including cameraman Fred Nerac and 
Hussein Osman, were killed. But a British court says that in Lloyd's 
case the US military were culpable.
"There has been an intolerable denial of justice in all of these cases," 
said White. "It is time there was a comprehensive, independent and 
inclusive investigation that clears the air, dispenses with lies and 
deception and tells the truth about American involvement in these tragic 
incidents."

 Lo e' gia' in Russia
e quindi gli americani fanno bene ad adeguarsi?

 Dal tuo punto di vista
dal mio punto di vista, Putin non millanta di esportare democrazia,
Bush sì.

 Lo e' gia' in Russia, kompagno.
Lo estendiamo agli USA, kamerata? Btw, ti risulta io abbia mai difeso 
quel fascio di Putin? Perché sei così broccolo da dividere in gruppi 
"adiabatici" tutti gli umani? Ops, domanda inutile, se fatta a un broccolo.
Namib