Reuters chief blames US military for death of three employees in Iraq

[maddezmom]

LISBON (AFP) - The global managing editor of British news provider Reuters said the US military was entirely to blame for the deaths of three of its employees in Iraq (news - web sites) since the start of the war there in March 2003, an allegation disputed by the Pentagon (news - web sites).


"All of them were killed by the American army," Reuters chief David Schlesinger told reporters on the sidelines of a media conference in the southern Portuguese resort of Vilamoura, national news agency Lusa reported.


"There is no understanding on the part of the US military regarding the the exercise of journalism," he added according to the agency.


"We can't run the risk that journalists will become targets (in Iraq). We must learn the lessons from these tragic cases."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041118/wl_mideast_afp/us_iraq_media_reuters&cid=1514&ncid=1480

[KingChicken]

1. Kill-happy Americans, total disregard for human life, disgusting.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Kick

[OutsourceBush]

3. Bush doesn't want any evidence

trying to report from Iraq is a death sentence.

[VegasWolf]

4. Shouldn't take pictures of US at inopportune moments.

[Dover]

5. "How can the Pentagon expect us to work under these conditions,"

said Schlesinger.

They obviously don't get it. The Pentagon doesn't WANT them to work...unless of course it's under their propaganda control.

[grumpy old fart]

6. If they were killed by us they were insurgents....

Isn't that the way it works? No civilians in Fallujah folks, just move along, nothing to see here.....