~Journalists have been killed by the US military in Iraq, this has made other journalists nervous. Mr. Weissman offers some remedies. Especially noteworthy for "image-spotters":
"...train soldiers to recognize the obvious differences between rocket launchers and TV cameras."
~AND:
" Military intelligence regularly monitors the uplink equipment that reporters use to transmit their stories and communicate by satellite phone. But, as the BBC's Nik Gowing discovered, the electronic intelligence mavens make no effort to distinguish between journalistic communications and those of enemy forces. All the sensing devices do is look for electronic traffic between the monitored uplinks and known enemies.
In Gowing's view, this led the Americans to order a rocket attack on the Kabul office of the Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, whose journalists kept regular contact with the Taliban as part of their journalistic coverage."
story via truthout
Posted by Cieciel at June 23, 2005 08:52 PM