2000 Mark Approaches in Iraq, Journalist Hotel Bombed: Coincidence?

[McCamy Taylor]

I should preface this by saying that when I read that the 2000 US Service death toll was approaching, I began to wonder what the Neo-cons and/or the Muslim extremists (who BOTH want this war) would do.


Is this it? Are the journalists in Iraq getting a not so subtle message? If so, from which side, or from both?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2005-10-24-hotel-attack_x.htm


Three massive vehicle bombs exploded Monday near the Palestine Hotel, home to many foreign journalists, killing at least 20 people. Dramatic television video showed one of the bombers driving a cement truck through the concrete blast walls that guard the hotel, then blowing up his vehicle.

The exploding cement truck — caught in APTN footage — blew a hole in a 12-foot concrete wall that separates the hotel from the square. U.S. soldiers maintain a presence inside the five-acre hotel compound, which also includes the Sheraton Hotel.

Inside the Palestine, light fixtures were blown out, pictures were blasted off the walls and windows were shattered.
.

An AP photographer at a checkpoint at the northwest corner of the hotel said at least three fellow photographers from other media were injured and taken away by ambulance. Three APTN personnel inside the hotel suffered minor injuries.

The AP counted six wounded inside the hotel, which was last hit in an insurgent rocket attack on Oct. 7, 2004.

The attacks caused heavy damage to the south side of the 19-story hotel, forcing journalists, including those from AP, Fox News and the U.S. government-funded Alhurra TV station to take refuge in the corridor. Fox and Alhurra said their staff members were safe.

[tatertop]

1. All I know for sure is, it's all bad