The Bombing Of Journalists (Again)

When Blunkett was asked whether he thought his suggestion was against international law, he replied, “I don’t think for a minute in previous wars we’d have thought twice about ensuring that a propaganda mechanism on the soil of the country you were invading would actually continue being able to propagandise against you.” Just two weeks after the April 8, 2003, diary entry, a US missile hit an electricity generator at Al-Jazeera’s office in Baghdad. Reporter Tareq Ayyoub was killed and another staff member wounded. Al-Jazeera’s editor-in-chief, Ahmed Al-Sheikh said, “This adds to the growing evidence that will one day prove that the attack on Al-Jazeera was premeditated...at the highest levels. Al-Jazeera was being targeted at the time because the people who were waging war on Iraq didn’t like what it was showing. We talk about terrorism. This is pure terrorism.” Blunkett’s admission is even more damning coming as it does amidst ongoing efforts by the British government to suppress evidence that President Bush had discussed with Blair the possible bombing of Al-Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/alja-o25.shtml

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