Powertoad, um, the al jazeera office is right accross the street from the Iraqi Ministry of Information. A perfectly VALID military target.

I think it is horrible that they were killed. However, I think it probably was a mispunched coordinate or bad wind compensation which caused that one.

Abu Dabi(also right next to the information ministry btw) was attacked by a tank, as was the palestine hotel.

Picture this, you are in fairly intense combat for almost 3 weeks straight, people are firing at you from somewhere, you believe you see it from one of those 2 locations, you don't have a tv in your tank, so you really have no idea where these journalists are, you are tired, nervous, whatever, and you fire at something by mistake.

I am convinced that this was a mistake pure and simple. If the thinking is that we were shooting at them on purpose because we didnt like there coverage, we would have to raid the Al Jazeera corporate headquarters in Doha Qatar in order to prevent them from giving us even worse coverage after killing their reporter. Same with Abu Dabi, as well as Reuters, and Tele 5.

As for the british journalists, as far as I can remember, the latest I heard was that they had managed to get in the middle of a fight between iraqi and american forces.

give it a rest powertoad.