The BBC's intrepid World Affairs Editor and liberator of Kabul was lightly wounded in an attack by a US aircraft on a convoy of US special forces and Kurdish troops. 10 people were killed.
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The BBC have got off quite lightly. Both ITV and Channel 4 have had reporters killed by the US.
What apparently happened is that the convoy saw an Iraqi tank up ahead, so they radioed in asking for air support to take the tank out. The air support - one fighter jet - turned up, and promptly bombed the convoy.
Do they do any sort of Friend Or Foe recognition training in the US, or what?
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They're getting better, though - that Iraqi tank was only a mile away from the convoy. Cor, only one mile out - nobody does precision bombing like the Yanks. 8)
...and now the journalist's hotel gets "blasted". I mean it's a hotel for crying out loud. They must've known which one the journalists were in and it's not as if hotels are heavily disguised.
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They also fired on some Al-Jazeera's offices. IIRC, they also bombed Al-Jazeera's offices in Afghanistan last year. Possibly the same kind of 'mistake' that destroyed the Chinese embassy during the 1999 (?) NATO bombings of Kosovo?
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Ahhhhh.... Well, I suppose that's an understandable mistake.
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