Freedom of information?

[Lord Sander]

http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm

I guess not.

[Wicked Pilot]

Do you think that perhaps you could back that up with a legitimate news agency, like maybe the BBC itself?

[theski]

Maybe we should use them as human shields, but the electronic emissions make for a good target lock

[Joe]

Sounds like a load of cock and bull to me.

[Lord Sander]

Do you think that perhaps you could back that up with a legitimate news agency, like maybe the BBC itself?

It's from an Irish radio station, RTÉ Radio One http://www.radio1.ie/weekend/sundayshow/, would you rather have listened to the entire show? Click 'hear the show'

edit: removed an unnecessary url end thingy

[Enlightenment]

Feeding the name of the author who wrote that article ("Fintan Dunne") to Google turns up more obvious bullshit--UFO conspiracies, 'alternative' views on AIDS--than a GOP convention. Given US targetting habits this story is very likely to be true but the immediate author appears to be a whackjob.

Edit: The interview is approximately 52:05 minutes into the RAM stream available (at present--it'll be gone by Sunday) at http://www.rte.ie/rams/radio/sundayshow.ram

I have downloaded the stream from RTE's FTP site if anyone wants it once it disappears from the web.

So much for the story being bullshit.

[Lord Sander]

Feeding the name of the author who wrote that article ("Fintan Dunne") to Google turns up more obvious bullshit--UFO conspiracies, 'alternative' views on AIDS--than a GOP convention. Given US targetting habits this story is very likely to be true but the immediate author appears to be a whackjob.

Kate Adie, however, is a very respected news reporter.

[NecronLord]

You go into a war zone you might not come back. Do these dumbasses not understand that. We know the pentagon kill reporters when they need to, they 'accidentally' dropped one on Al Jazzira in Afganistan, and 'accidentally' blew up the serbian state television HQ.

Does this surprise anyone? These people don't have to go!

[Enlightenment]

You go into a war zone you might not come back. Do these dumbasses not understand that. We know the pentagon kill reporters when they need to, they 'accidentally' dropped one on Al Jazzira in Afganistan, and 'accidentally' blew up the serbian state television HQ.

The Serbian hit was deliberate, and under the circumstances, quite likely justified.

Deliberately hunting down and killing people who are making reports for an external audience from the opposing side of the warzone is something else entirely.


Mods: isn't this more along the lines of an OT thread? Sooner or later, it's going to go flamewar....

[Sea Skimmer]

this is a load of bullshit. It goes from the US threatening to kill reporters, to it actually targeting uplinks to it merely stating that areas which reporters are in may be bombed. Nothing in it supports the US making a deliberate effort to kill reporters or stating that it will do so, except the scaremongering title.

[NecronLord]

You go into a warzone, you run a risk of death. Is that not painfully obvious?

[Enlightenment]

this is a load of bullshit. It goes from the US threatening to kill reporters, to it actually targeting uplinks to it merely stating that areas which reporters are in may be bombed.

Listen to the interview. The US intends to attack any uplinks detected by its ESM assets.

[Enlightenment]

You go into a warzone, you run a risk of death. Is that not painfully obvious?

It is painfully obvious that any non-combatant who enters a warzone may be killed accidentally. This is fundamentally different from being specifically targetted.