L0n9pi9  Wrote:

Rec, for all your impartiality shown before, i find you only seriously documenting the one side here. One mans reporter is another mans spy. Perhaps its an issue of the fundamental differences between a journalist and a reporter.

i still admire your tireless work, regardless.

There's another side to document here?

Someone else is going to have to go digging for evidence Marie Colvin was some kind of asset.

The deaths of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik are regrettably sad and tragic, as is the death of any human being in a war zone.

It has happened before and when we are responsible it becomes a case of collateral damage even when the targets were carefully chosen and hit with precision!.

In the interests of a fair and impartial appraisal of this awful incident one must look back at some of the attacks on members of the press in the past.

April 1999 in Serbia, NATO targetted the HQ of Serbian TV and radio with precision munitions, killing 16 people. There was NO mistake in the targetting, it was intentional. The dead could no way be described as combatants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombin...adquarters

November 2001 the Kabul office of Al-Jazerra was attacked by US airpower. BBC reporter NiK Gowing said he believes that the western military forces are prepared to target journalists if they get in the way. He said that representatives of the British special forces had told him: "When a war is not declared, journalists are legitimate targets where they are inconvenient."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/nov...fghanistan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/nov...fghanistan

In April 2003 the Baghdad HQ of Al-Jazeera was bombed by US aircraft, killing cameraman Tareq Ayyoub and seriously wounding another journalist. This happened even after the TV station had given the exact co-ordinates of their offices to the USA to avoid any accidental military strikes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_...927527.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/apr...ndthemedia

There was an alleged memo revealing U.S. President George W. Bush's apparent plan to bomb the Qatar headquarters of Al-Jazeera in Doha! This was during the horrific US assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah where only Al-Jazeera reported on the dreadful casualties inficted on civilians by US forces.
The "memo" story was gagged and silenced under the UKs Official Secrets Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_bombing_memo
http://www.ifex.org/united_kingdom/2005/...eera_memo/

Also in Apr 2003 a US M1 Abrams tank fired a carefully aimed shell at a hotel FULL of journalists. The ironically named Palestine hotel was hit and 2 people were killed, Taras Protsyuk who worked for Reuters and Jose Couso who was covering the Iraq war for Spanish TV.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/08/intern...RAMAN.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_8,_20..._U.S._fire
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83503,00.html

There is also the tragic case of ITN reporter Terry Lloyd who was killed by US forces in March 2003. Fred Nerac, who was working as a cameraman, was also caught in the attack and is still missing, believed dead.
At the inquest into the death of Terry Lloyd the verdict of unlawful killing by U.S. forces was recorded. Though the US troops involved were identified, no charges were ever brought against them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Lloyd
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul...television

I hope that puts todays sad news into some historical context. Terrible things happen to journalist in war-zones, and WE have been just as guilty too, however uncomfortable that reality makes some people.

Marie Colvin last report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nww7rRSq0x8

Sorry for the loss of Human life, but you cant really call them reporters, at best they were propoganda spreaders, not journalists in the "real" sense of the word.

I am sure once upon a time they probably were before they were indoctrinated into the system that killed them.

You can tell i'm new to this. i just want to know, does this watchvid constitute good journalism, good reporting or something else.


i guess i'm trying to understand through which polarised view i should be viewing these events...

Homs, Baba Amr neighborhood: American journalist Marie Colvin and French journalist Remi Ochlik killed under the rubble after the house they were in was shelled. [22 Feb 2012]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFhCh11bb...re=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlKz3bS3s...e=youtu.be


One of Colvin's last interviews on BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17120484

Journalist Marie Colvin in Homs: "I saw a baby die today"

Parts of the Syrian city of Homs are being bombarded by shells in what witnesses are describing as the heaviest attack in days.

Sunday Times reporter, Marie Colvin, is the only British newspaper journalist in Homs.

The footage at the start was filmed by cameraman Paul Conroy on 17 February



REC: Let me know if the BBC video doesn't work in your country and I make a copy.

should i be sad?

only if you are a fan of false flag operations


LoP Guest  Wrote:

should i be sad?