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Re: Hotel Palestine
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 06:33:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kyle McDonald writes:
> Pedro Silva wrote:
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> > Whomever identified that hotel as a target, that person clearly has no
> > capability to foresee the consequences of his actions. Wouldn't any army be
> > better off expurged of such incompetents?
> > "Support the troops"... yeah, right. You might start to do that providing
> > them with some good sense!
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> The leadership of the army knew that the hotel was full
> of journalists, and avoided making it an explicit target.
First Al Cezirah Baghdad office (bombing, 1 cameraman died, three injured),
then Abu Dabi TV Baghdad office (tank fire, no causalties), then Hotel
Palestine (tank fire, two died, three injured). All in yesterday, all in
just a single day.
I'm not as sure as yourself about "explicitness" of the targets. I have no
idea about their motives to kill two europeans, though. Maybe they just hit
the wrong room?..
Selçuk
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| (...) Actually motives are a good question. What possible motive could they have had to kill *any* journalist, that would have provided a benefit to them that was worth all the bad press they are receiving now? They have been going out of their way (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) The leadership of the army knew that the hotel was full of journalists, and avoided making it an explicit target. However I don't think that every front line soldier is given a map of every building and told which to shoot and which not to. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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