Note has been taken here before of the killing of US and foreign reporters in Iraq (and elsewhere, of course). The story of a Spanish journalist who was killed, deliberately it now seems, in the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by US troops is here and is ongoing.
Today Nur al-Cubicle has the story of another such death of a Knight-Ridder reporter the other day. Go to the comments section of this post and read the story as related by "Mark from Ireland." Here, too, is Mark's link to the story of the shooting.
Of course not all the deaths of journalists in Iraq and Afghanistan can be attributed to "friendly" fire. But the US, in this case, poses as liberator and champion of democracy. When journalists are killed, sometimes by accident, sometimes in what is surely deliberate shooting, by the democratizing, liberating American military, one has to question their real intentions are.
What's the truthful explanation when a sniper just happens to kill a reporter with one shot? The truth and the facts often seem to be what this administration -- and their military -- is at war with.
For more information on the numbers of journalists killed, kidnapped and disappeared in Iraq, go to the Committee to Protect Journalists' website, here.
