So now, like everything else even tangentially related to Bush, I am suspect. I think the footage being aired, while in and of itself nothing more noteworthy than the story it covers, would seem to indicate that our concerns about military media censorship aren't unfounded.<<
Journalists have had a pretty bad go of things lately... and yes... it did look like the soldier was making a threatening gesture to the cameraman....
http://foi.missouri.edu/jouratrisk/mediacasualties.html>>Jose Couso, a cameraman with Spanish network Telecinco, also lost his life when a US tank allegedly opened fire on the hotel.
An al-Jazeera cameraman, Tareq Ayyoub, died and one of the channel's journalists disappeared when a coalition bombing raid hit the Arabic TV station's Baghdad office yesterday.
BBC translator Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed was killed in the worst "friendly fire" incident of the war so far on Sunday, which also left BBC correspondent John Simpson with minor shrapnel wounds.<<