3.17.2003

Targeting the media

According to a story in The Register, journalists operating behind enemy lines in Iraq or, presumably, straying from the press pool, run the risk of being shot by US forces:
Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take radical new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' journalists will be shot at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 last Sunday veteran war reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a senior Pentagon official that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite phones, that are detected by US aircraft are likely to be fired on.
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