Posted on 06/05/2004 12:21:58 PM PDT by BJungNan
NEWS CREW IN IRAQ TIPPED OFF TO LOCATION OF ROADSIDE BOMB DID NOT RELAY INFORMATION TO COALITION CONVOY
MOSUL, Iraq - Coalition soldiers questioned two news media cameramen and a reporter after a roadside bomb exploded near a Coalition convoy two kilometers north of Mosul June 3.
The media, who were at the scene prior to the attack, told soldiers at the scene they had received a tip to be at that location prior to the attack and they had witnessed the explosion.
There was minimal damage to a Coalition vehicle, a cracked windshield, and no serious injuries.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division soldiers requested the media accompany them to a base camp in Mosul to answer questions as witnesses to the incident. The news media representatives left the base camp in the mid afternoon.
American crews are not going to be doing this. The bad guys will kill them just like Daniel Pearl.
Look what happened to the Polish journalist who was in Iraq.
They should be escorted to the Iraqi border and dumped off in Syrian territory with no weapons, and arrested as spies if they try to come back. Just for starters.
The news media representatives left the base camp in the mid afternoon.
That should have read : News crew was last seen limping their sorry a$$es toward the closest airport with camera gear sticking out of lower portions of their bodies and letters in their pockets saying not only that they had to vacate the theater but also could not return to their former homeland.
This kind of action is reprehensible.
The story nor "the people have a right to know" is not enough reason to allow ones own counrtymen to possibly die.
Of course if they were not an American news crew and stood by while our boys walked into a trap then they should have been shot and left for buzzard bait.
Not if the Iraqi insurgents can use them to disseminate propaganda.
That's an insult to B@st@rds everywhere.
They are beneath contempt.
Al-Jazeera / ABCNNBCBS What the hell's the difference.?
If these Sons-A-Bitches want "ACTION" to point their cameras at we should make sure they get it.
Up Close and Personal.!!!
A suitable punishment: strap the b@stards to the lead humvee of the next convoy. In fact, continue doing it until the next IED detonates. See if they think that it's still newsworthy.
Credit for this idea goes to the movie "Breaker Morant".
They news team ought to be jailed as accessories to the attack. This NEEDS to be the policy.
This was probably Mike Wallace & Peter Jennings, but who was the 3rd?
Who was it? The vermin.
Are we going to put up with this?
Who was it?
WHO WERE THE BA**ARDS?!
In the series "Ethics in America" both Mike Wallace and Peter Jennings tell the moderator that they would probably permit a US patrol be killed in they were able to film it while escorted by the opposition army.
The series is old, from the 80s, I believe. It dealt with a hypothetical situation involving a Vietnam type scenario, but this news release by Centcom suggests that the media hasn't changed their tune.
They aren't Americans. They are "neutral."
A Marine lieutenant colonel who was also part of the series responded indignantly that he would "forget" they were Americans when they got their ass in a sling and needed to be rescued. Then he thought about it and said that he'd probably be ordered to spend the blood of his men to protect their sorry lives.
The media needs an ass kicking.
Damn.
These liberal, unbiased, independent, trustworthy, completely professional TV "reporters" would rather get a news award, (would they have admitted to the Pulitzer committee that the TV crew had been tipped off to be ready to film?) for filming the explosion - complete with dead American soldiers! - than warn who "should have been" their fellow citizens............
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