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Re: Hotel Palestine
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:36:32 GMT
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Selçuk Göre wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Kyle McDonald writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?..
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 to avoid hurting civilians
throughout this whole thing mainly to avoid PR problems in the
country and that part of the world. I can't see them throwing
all that hard work away just to send a message to some TV networks.
If this was done on purpose what did they think they had to gain?
People keep bringing up how all 3 were hit in the same day. That
probably has more to do with the fact that all 3 are right near
each other and near the other targets that were being hit that day.
Now if each had been in totally different parts of the city and
all 3 got hit on the same day, then that would be more than just
a coincidence.
-Kyle
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