Keith: The report used the the word threatened several times, but they where personal interpretations of the reporters.
"Another guest on the show, war author Phillip Knightley, reported that the Pentagon has also threatened they: "may find it necessary to bomb areas in which war correspondents are attempting to report from the Iraqi side." I doubt the Pentagon threatened to shoot or bomb reporters. That would be very uncivilized of them. Footage of the TV war correspondents, the reporters where dressed in military clothing. Helmets and flack jackets that looked just like current military personnel's equipment. I think the Pentagon is saying, if it looks like a duck, and is surrounded by ducks, it might be mistaken for a duck come duck season. Those new Moabs are not very good at deciding who is who, it only knows where to land. How would you mark, separate, or protect reporter from both sides? Harley -----Original Message----- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 11:55 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDANT REPORTERS IN IRAQ Hello Vern >I did not say anything about the role or importance of the Press, No, other than that if they get in the military's way that's just too bad, the military's got more important things to do than taking a bit of care not to kill journalists. >I will >leave that for others with more direct knowledge to sort out. To put my >statement in simpler terms if a reporter is with the troops and he finds >himself in the middle of a live fire fight and he decides to stand up to >take pictures he may well get shot. Many journalists are killed every year in the course of duty (*their* duties). They take that risk, which is a rather different thing to the Pentagon threatening to kill them, wouldn't you say? >In todays war if you radiate you will >be just like standing up, and you may get hit. In any war that's always been the case. You've changed your stance a bit - are you still defending the Pentagon's "right" to threaten to kill independent journalists in Iraq? Keith >Vern > > > > >I think the point is that anyone who is in a war zone and feels the need >to > >emit radio frequency radiation should expect to be soon visited by >incoming > >rounds or bombs. The military is not going to have the time to sort it out > >or take the risk of letting it continue. It is just asking to get hit. > > > >Vern > >You also seem to misunderstand what a journalist's job is, Vern. The >military is NOT more important than the press. They will have to make >the time, like it or not, inconvenient or not. The recent trend >hasn't showing them doing that. So the recent trend must change, not >the press and their role. > >Keith Addison > > > >Andrew Preston -- Said: > > You seem to misunderstand what, in truth, a journalist's real job is. > > > >On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:20:16 -0500, "Steve Spence" > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > I can understand the pentagons concern for the reasonable possibility > > > that > > > the Iraqi's could use the information being broadcast against us. That > > > does > > > not excuse their reported unconcern for the journalists lives. The > > > journalists should also take into consideration that what they report > > > could > > > be detrimental to our efforts. If their reporting causes additional >harm > > > to > > > our servicemen, then yes, the uplink sites need to be taken out. > > > > > > > >-- > >Andrew Preston > > >yellowjuice2001 wrote: > > > > >http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Your own Online Store Selling our Overstock. http://us.click.yahoo.com/rZll0B/4ftFAA/46VHAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
