Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - US Military targeted killed 12 journalists

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Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - US Military targeted killed 12 journalists

Every year, in contrast to the closed summery Bilderberg meetings, a
sort of semi open to the public forum is held in Davos Switzerland, the
Davos Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. In 2005, shortly
after the 2nd Bush Administration term had just started, the World
gathered to hear each other out. On YouTube a smacking number of 32
videos can be watched, some of these well over an hour. If you would be
interested it would at least take a full working week to properly watch
these (take your pick here
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL66AD0BD73934A6F0 ) :

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Welcome to the Annual Meeting    18:46
   Samuel Schmid, President of the Swiss Confederation and
      Federal Councillor of Defence
   Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Jacques Chirac         36:51
   Jacques Chirac, President of France
   Chaired by Klaus Schwab

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Tony Blair         37:56
   Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
   Introduced by Klaus Schwab

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - One Economy, Many Risks      1:00:35
   C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics, USA
   John R. Coomber, Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Re, Switzerland
   Samuel A. DiPiazza Jr, Global Chief Executive Officer,
      PricewaterhouseCoopers, USA
   Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group (ICG), Belgium
   John P. Holdren, Professor of Environmental Policy and Director,
      Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, John F.
      Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA
   Ronald K. Noble, Secretary-General, International Criminal Police
      Organization (Interpol), Lyon
   Introduced by Kevan V. Watts, Chairman, Merrill Lynch International,
      United Kingdom
   Moderated by Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World TV, British
      Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), United Kingdom

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Does Business Have a Noble Purpose   56:34
   Lord Browne of Madingley, Group Chief Executive, BP, United Kingdom
   Ian E. L. Davis, Managing Director, Worldwide, McKinsey & Company,
      United Kingdom
   Rakesh Khurana, Professor, Harvard Business School, USA
   Moderated by Laura D. Tyson, Dean, London Business School,
      United Kingdom

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - The G8 and Africa      1:18:02
   Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
   Bono, Musician, DATA (Debt, AIDS and Trade in Africa), United Kingdom
   William J. Clinton, Founder, William Jefferson Clinton Foundation;
      President of the United States (1993-2001)
   William H. Gates III, Co-Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
      Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
   Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa
   Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria
   Intervention from the floor
   William H. Frist, Senator from Tennessee (Republican), USA; Majority
      Leader, US Senate
   Moderated by Christine Ockrent, Senior Anchor, Journalist and Author,
      France 3, France

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - WTO's tenth Birthday      1:18:16
   Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor, Columbia University, USA
   Joseph Deiss, Federal Councillor of the Economy of the Swiss
      Confederation
   Luiz Fernando Furlan, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade
      of Brazil
   Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director-General, World Trade Organization
      (WTO), Geneva
   Peter D. Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International, United
      Kingdom; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic
      Forum
   Challenger Neil Kearney, General Secretary, International Textile,
      Garment and Leather Workers' Federation, Brussels
   Moderated by Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Director, Yale Center
      for the Study of Globalization, USA; Member of the Foundation
      Board of the World Economic Forum

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Biological Threats to Societies   49:19
   John M. Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of
      Technology, USA
   William H. Frist, Senator from Tennessee (Republican), USA;
      Majority Leader, US Senate
   Tara O'Toole, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Center for
      Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
   Moderated by Sheila MacVicar, International Correspondent, CBS News,
      United Kingdom

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif      14:10
   Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt
   Introduced by Frédéric Sicre, Managing Director, Public Figures,
      and Acting Director, Middle East, World Economic Forum

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Modernization Without Westernization 1:19:17
   Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan
   Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice-President of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
      Head, Department of the Environment, Islamic Republic of Iran
   Najib Razak, Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
   Ahmed Mahmoud Nazif, Prime Minister of Egypt
   Chaired by Jim Clancy, Correspondent and Anchor, CNN International, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Bill Clinton         1:01:46
   William J. Clinton, Founder, William Jefferson Clinton Foundation;
      President of the United States (1993-2001)
   Introduced by Klaus Schwab
   Chaired by Charlie Rose, Anchor, Executive Producer and Executive
      Editor, The Charlie Rose Show, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Gerhard Schröder         38:47
   Gerhard Schröder, Federal Chancellor of Germany
   Moderated by Daniel Vasella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
      Novartis, Switzerland

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Peace Process         57:07
   Salam Fayyad, Minister of Finance of the Palestinian Authority
   Maher Al Masri, Minister of National Economy of the Palestinian
      Authority
   Ehud Olmert, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Industry, Trade,
      Labour and Communications of Israel
   Shimon Peres, Vice-Prime Minister of Israel and Chairman of the
      Labour Party
   Nabeel Shaath, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian Authority
   Silvan Shalom, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
      of Israel
   Introduced by Frédéric Sicre, Managing Director, Public Figures, and
      Acting Director, Middle East, World Economic Forum

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - America's House Divided      1:07:02
   Orrin G. Hatch, Senator from Utah (Republican); Chairman of the
      Senate Judiciary Committee, USA
   John McCain, Senator from Arizona (Republican), USA
   Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco, USA;
      Young Global Leader
   John J. Sweeney, President, American Federation of Labor and Congress
      of Industrial Organizations, USA
   Moderated by David R. Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership,
      John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - The Russian Riddle      1:16:36
   Alain J. Belda, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Alcoa, USA
   William F. Browder, Chief Executive Officer, Hermitage Capital
      Management, Russian Federation; Young Global Leader
   Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado, USA
   Vladimir Ryzhkov, Member of the State Duma, Russian Federation;
      Young Global Leader
   Alexander Zhukov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
   Moderated by Janet Guyon, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - US Foreign Policy in Bush II   1:18:43
   Christopher J. Dodd, Senator from Connecticut (Democrat), USA
   Orrin G. Hatch, Senator from Utah (Republican); Chairman of the
      Senate Judiciary Committee, USA
   James A. Leach, Congressman from Iowa (Republican), USA
   Bill Owens, Governor of Colorado, USA
   Joseph R. Biden, Senator from Delaware (Democrat), USA
   Chaired by Thomas L. Friedman, Columnist, Foreign Affairs,
      The New York Times, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Funding the War on Poverty   1:01:36
   Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom
   William H. Gates III, Co-Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;
   Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
   Benjamin William Mkapa, President of Tanzania
   Jeffrey D. Sachs, Chair and Director, Earth Institute, Columbia
      University, USA
   Domenico Siniscalco, Minister of Economy, Finance and the
      Treasury of Italy
   Moderated by William H. Frist, Senator from Tennessee (Republican),
      USA; Majority Leader, US Senate

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Are Oil and Gas Supplies Secure?   1:13:03
   Thierry Desmarest, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Total, France
   Robert W. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer, TNK-BP,
      Russian Federation
   Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance of Nigeria
   Armen Sarkissian, President and Founder, Eurasia House International,
      United Kingdom
   Moderated by Ross Westgate, Anchor and Presenter, CNBC Europe,
      United Kingdom

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva   30:41
   Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
   Chaired by Klaus Schwab
   
Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Recep Tayyip Erdogan      25:38
   Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey
   Chaired by Klaus Schwab

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Victor Yushchenko      20:56
   Victor A. Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
   Chaired by Klaus Schwab

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Aleksander Kwasniewski      8:33
   Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland reacts to the
   special message by Victor A. Yushchenko, President of Ukraine

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Keeping the Global Economy Growing   1:10:02
   Carly Fiorina, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, HP, USA
   Walter B. Kielholz, Chairman of the Board, Credit Suisse Group,
      Switzerland
   Kakutaro Kitashiro, Chairman, Keizai Doyukai, Japan
   Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
   Robert Zoellick, US Trade Representative
   Chaired by Matthew A. Winkler, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - What Lies Ahead for Iraq?   1:23:02
   Kamal Kharrazi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic
      Republic of Iran
   Patrick J. Leahy, Senator from Vermont (Democrat), USA
   John McCain, Senator from Arizona (Republican), USA
   Mowaffak Al Rubaie, National Security Advisor of Iraq
   Moderated by David Ignatius, Associate Editor and Columnist,
      The Washington Post, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Huang Ju            53:02
   Huang Ju, Executive Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China
   Chaired by Klaus Schwab

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Outlook on Terrorism in 2005   1:14:15
   Bruce Hoffman, Director, Washington Office, RAND Corporation, USA
   Alexei Pushkov, Author and Programme Director, TV-Center,
      Russian Federation
   Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, USA
   Gijs M. de Vries, Counter-terrorism Coordinator, Council of
      the European Union, Brussels
   Moderated by Peter David, Foreign Editor, The Economist, United Kingdom

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - US Economic Recovery      1:07:39
   Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
      American International Group, USA
   Richard C. Shelby, Senator from Alabama (Republican); Chairman of
      the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, USA
   Lawrence H. Summers, President, Harvard University, USA
   John B. Taylor, US Undersecretary of the Treasury for
      International Affairs
   Chaired by Maria Bartiromo, Presenter and Host, Closing Bell, CNBC, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Jose Manuel Barroso      33:19
   Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, Brussels
   Interviewed by Klaus Kleinfeld, President and Chief Executive Officer,
      Siemens, Germany
   
Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Chinese Economy's Pressure Points   1:15:52
   Li Ruogu, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China
   Li Shenglin, Vice-Chairman, National Development and Reform Commission,i
      People's Republic of China
   Liu Jian, Director, State Council Office on Poverty Alleviation and
      Development, State Council of the People's Republic of China,
      People's Republic of China
   Reaction from Alan S. Dawes, Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer,
      Delphi Corporation, USA
   Stephen S. Roach, Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley, USA
   Moderated by Pamela D. Woodall, Economics Editor, The Economist,
      United Kingdom

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Leading the Great Company   1:04:57
   Michael S. Dell, Chairman of the Board, Dell, USA; Member of the
      Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
   Maurice Lévy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Publicis Group,
      France; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic
      Forum
   N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor,
      Infosys Technologies, India
   Robert L. Nardelli, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
      Home Depot, USA
   Charles Prince, Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup, USA
   Richard Quest, Anchor, CNN International, United Kingdom
   John A. Thain, Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, USA
   Closing Remarks by William Donaldson, Chairman, US Securities and
      Exchange Commission
   Chaired by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration,
      Harvard Business School, USA

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Europe's Missing Engine of Growth   1:13:44
   Hervé Gaymard, Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry of France
   Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and
      Minister for Women of the United Kingdom
   Angela Merkel, Chairperson, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Bundestag,
      Germany
   Klaus P. Zumwinkel, Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche
      Post World Net, Germany
   Challenger Henry A. McKinnell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
      Pfizer, USA; Member of the Foundation Board of the World
      Economic Forum
   Moderated by Günter Verheugen, Commissioner, Enterprise and Industry,
      European Commission, Brussels

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Closing Plenary: What We Should Do  1:20:42
   Ged Davis, Managing Director, Centre for Strategic Insight,
      World Economic Forum
   Al Gore, Chairman, Generation Investment Management, USA
   Kumi Naidoo, Secretary-General and Chief Executive Officer,
      Civicus-World Alliance for Citizen Participation,
      South Africa; Young Global Leader
   N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor,
      Infosys Technologies, India
   Lubna S. Olayan, Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company,
      Saudi Arabia
   Charles Prince, Chief Executive Officer, Citigroup, USA
   Daniel Vasella, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Novartis,
      Switzerland
   Closing Remarks by Klaus Schwab
   Moderated by Nik Gowing, Main Presenter, BBC World TV, British
      Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), United Kingdom
   
However there was and still is, after 10 years, one Session missing in this
set of Video tapes ... :

Davos Annual Meeting 2005 - Will Democracy Survive the Media ?
   Richard Sambrook,  Global director of BBC radio
   Barney Frank, U.S. Congressman
   Abdullah Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Afghanistan
   Eason Jordan, Chief News Executive for CNN
   Moderated by David R. Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership,
      John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA

http://www.puertorico.com/forums/open-board/18454-us-military-targeted-killed-12-journalists.html
6th February 2005, 16:42

Do US Troops Target Journalists in Iraq?
Davos, Switzerland from the WEF 2005

This fiery topic became a real nightmare today for the Chief News
Executive of CNN at what was an initially very mild discussion at the
World Economic Forum titled "Will Democracy Survive the Media?".

At a discussion moderated by David R. Gergen, the Director for Public
Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
the concept of truth, fairness, and balance in the news was weighed
against corporate profit interest, the need for ratings, and how the
media can affect democracy. The panel included Richard Sambrook, the
worldwide director of BBC radio, U.S. Congressman Barney Frank,
Abdullah Abdullah, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, and
Eason Jordan, Chief News Executive of CNN. The audience was a mix of
journalists, WEF attendees (many from Arab countries), and a US Senator
from Connecticut, Chris Dodd.

During one of the discussions about the number of journalists killed in
the Iraq War, Eason Jordan asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who
had not only been killed by US troops in Iraq, but they had in fact
been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which seemed to
win favor in parts of the audience (the anti-US crowd) and cause great
strain on others.

Due to the nature of the forum, I was able to directly challenge Eason,
asking if he had any objective and clear evidence to backup these
claims, because if what he said was true, it would make Abu Ghraib look
like a walk in the park. David Gergen was also clearly disturbed and
shocked by the allegation that the U.S. would target journalists,
foreign or U.S. He had always seen the U.S. military as the providers
of safety and rescue for all reporters.

Eason seemed to backpedal quickly, but his initial statements were
backed by other members of the audience (one in particular who
represented a worldwide journalist group). The ensuing debate was (for
lack of better words) a real "sh--storm". What intensified the problem
was the fact that the session was a public forum being taped on camera,
in front of an international crowd. The other looming shadow on what
was going on was the presence of a U.S. Congressman and a U.S. Senator
in the middle of some very serious accusations about the U.S. military.

To be fair (and balanced), Eason did backpedal and make a number of
statements claiming that he really did not know if what he said was
true, and that he did not himself believe it. But when pressed by
others, he seemed to waver back and forth between what might have been
his beliefs and the realization that he had created a kind of public
mess. His statements, his reaction, and the reaction of all in
attendance left me perplexed and confused. Many in the crowd,
especially those from Arab nations, applauded what he said and called
him a "very brave man" for speaking up against the U.S. in a public way
amongst a crowd ready to hear anti-US sentiments. I am quite sure that
somewhere in the Middle East, right now, his remarks are being printed
up in Arab language newspapers as proof that the U.S. is an evil and
corrupt nation. That is a real nightmare, because the Arab world is
taking something said by a credible leader of the media (CNN!) as the
gospel, or koranic truth. What is worse is that I am not really sure
what Eason really meant to communicate to us, but I do know that he was
quite passionate about it. Members of the audience took away what they
wanted to hear, and now they will use it in every vile and twisted way
imaginable.

To me, what was said can not be put back into the genie's bottle. So
here is my request as a U.S. citizen, and really only a minor, minor
player in the whole WEF scheme of things: Congressman Frank and Senator
Dodd, you both seem like good and honest men, and Congressman Frank
especially seems like someone with a bit of courage (I'm sure Senator
Dodd is brave as well). Clear up this mess, use your power and
authority as elected leaders, and make transparent what really
happened. You must do this to respect the 12 journalists killed and let
the world know how and why. Here is another challenge, and this one is
for the CNN and the BBC: What the hell happened? Is Eason right or is
he wrong? Good journalism calls for digging into and revealing all of
the facts (or was everything that was said in the mild part of the
discussion about fair coverage and seeking the truth just verbage?).

If what Eason originally said was true, exactly what happened and why
needs to become known to the American public and world at large. If it
is not, it is an example of how "news" is created by the heat of the
moment, without any bearing to reality. If it is true, we need to know
if it was official or if it was just some random disgruntled soldiers.
The dark scenario, what the rest of the world would love to believe, is
that the U.S. is sinister and evil and this is just another example of
Darth Bush. Is this the same U.S. that I know and love, or was this
just someone accidentally becoming swept up in the anti-U.S. feeling
that is all pervasive in Davos (but they love us too, especially
Clinton).

The cherry on the whipped cream of this cowpie sundae was poor Abdullah
Abdullah, a shining new, fresh scrubbed member of America's grand
experiment to export democracy to the Middle East. Here is someone who
seemed to be idealistic, full of hope and vigor. What is he thinking
about all of this? What kind of role model are we presenting to the
fragile new democracies of Afghanistan and Iraq? What we can do, what
we must do, is show them how democracy works, and how in an open and
free country the truth will get out, and those responsible will be held
accountable. The U.S. makes no claims about being perfect - we only
make claims that we are open enough to correct our problems, and to
admit freely to ourselves and the world if we are wrong.

As a last note, I think that this article is a good pointer to the
future of the news: average people, freely saying what they want, as
they saw it, for anyone to see. To me, that is freedom of the press."


http://www.puertorico.com/forums/open-board/18454-us-military-targeted-killed-12-journalists-2.html
12th February 2005, 23:50

[Hey, Boricua, you must have been raised in Disney World, in Orlando
Florida.

But, let's see you say: "However, that is the price some pay for
getting in the thick of things. Like I said, the individual that
claimed this should had proof. This would be the story of a life time
and would win the reporter or news organization the Pulitzer prize, if
it were true."
____________________________________________________________
I say: Since it was a British woman who started this,
Yeah, lets give the woman a prize!

Just to keep this in perspective let's read some more on this story.
Now some names are showing up, real interesting, I say.

So, you want the name of the 12 journalists, OK here is somebody, who
is willing to speculate. It sure makes a
lot of sense to me!

Eason Jordan and the names of 12 journalists "deliberately targeted" by
US troops

Submitted by Zed on Thu, 2005-02-03 00:31.
News Commentary

There's been a small storm of protest over CNN chief news executive
Eason Jordan accusing the US military not only of killing 12
journalists, but doing it deliberately. That's the kind of statement
that really requires a bit of preparation, so it's quite annoying that
he seems to have bungled the job of defending something I suspect is
true. Let's go over the list of reporters attacked by the US, and see
how many could fit that description.

2003.03.23: Terry Lloyd, Hussein Othman, and Fred Nerac killed, taking
at first US tank fire (despite being in a clearly marked jeep) that was
ostensibly aimed at Iraqi soldiers. According to an Iraqi eyewitness,
Terry Lloyd actually survived that first attack with only a wound to
the shoulder, but took an additional bullet to the head when a US
helicopter fired upon the civilian van taking him to the hospital. The
bodies of Hussein Othman and Fred Nerac were never found, but they are
presumed dead. This makes three possibly killed deliberately.

2003.03.28: Three foreign journalists are arrested, detained, and
beaten up, leaving one with broken ribs. No fatalities, so still only
three killed, but not exactly evidence of US care for uncontrolled
journalists.

2003.03.30: Gaby Rado falls from the roof of his hotel under unknown
circumstances. There's a lot of speculation about whether this was a
suicide, or whether someone pushed him, and it's noted that he's a
human rights reporter, the kind the US government generally wants out
of the way if not well controlled. There's absolutely no evidence one
way or the other, though, so you can't count this one unless you're the
type to seek tinfoil hats. The count remains at three.

2003.04.06: Kamaran Muhamed killed by shrapnel from a bomb dropped on a
convoy of Kurdish soldiers. This one can be chalked up to collateral
damage, and is rather unlikely to be intentional. The count remains at
three.

2003.04.08: Taras Protsyuk and José Couso killed when a US tank fires
at their hotel. The subsequent investigation of Reporters Without
Borders concluded that the soldiers on the ground had not been informed
that the hotel was the main residence for non-embedded journalists,
although their superiors were frequently informed of this, all the way
down to GPS locations, for weeks prior to the incident. RWB was
"extremely disappointed" when the military investigation closed
declaring that "no fault or negligence" could be attributed to the US
army for the incident. (As a side note, My Sandmen is reporting that
RWB is claiming only negligence, not intent, which I think is a little
inaccurate â€" RWB cleared the soldiers on the ground of intent, but
implied that a decision was made higher up to deliberately not inform
the troops, so as to encourage an "accident" with the non-embedded
troops that might report something contrary to the party line. Since
the military's investigation ended with a conclusion so much at odds
with the results of investigations from outside the military, and early
press releases of what happened differed so much from immediate reports
from the ground, it's pretty safe to assume that a solid cover-up was
made, and there's never going to be any more information found.)
Current total: five.

2003.04.08: Tariq Ayoub killed when a US missile hits the Al-Jazeera
headquarters. Al-Jazeera claims it is deliberate, and it is noted that
their Afghanistan office was one of the first buildings bombed back in
Kabul, Afghanistan as well. The US, of course, claims otherwise. While
this is plausible, considering how many of their missiles went randomly
astray, it's certainly suspicious. This brings the total to six.

2003.08.17: Mazen Dana killed by soldiers in two tanks outside Abu
Ghraib, now famous for entirely different reasons. The soldiers claimed
they thought he was pointing a rocket-propelled grenade at them; other
journalists at the scene stated that they had been seen filming for
half an hour before he was shot. Pictures from Reuters showing what he
looked like with a camera on his shoulder can be found here and here.
Update: Here's a picture of a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher for
comparison. Thanks to chthus for the link. The total is now seven.

2004.01.02: Four journalists, three from Reuters and one from NBC, were
fired upon, imprisoned, and brutalised, resulting in one requiring
subsequent hospitalization for a leg injury. They were wearing
bulletproof jackets clearly marked "Press". One was forced to strip
naked and ordered to put his shoe on his mouth, while soldiers told the
journalists, "If you don't shut up, we'll **** you." Others had bags
placed over their heads while being told that they were going to
Guantanamo, while soldiers whispered, "Let's have sex." The US
government claimed that they were enemy personnel pretending to be
media that had fired on US soldiers, but admitted that no weapons were
found. All four survived, so the total remains at seven, but this
doesn't paint a very pretty picture about US treatment of media outside
of their direct control (i.e. non-embedded), particularly taking the
events of 2003.03.28 into account.

2004.03.18: Ali Abdel Aziz and Ali al-Khatib killed by US soldiers
after getting into their vehicle (marked clearly "TV"), while trying to
get out of the area where a Volvo had tried to run a checkpoint,
sparking protests by their news agency Al-Iraqyia and others. They had
been given permission to film by the US Army. This brings the total to
nine.

2004.04.19: Assad Kadhim and Hussein Saleh killed by US fire on the
road to Samarra. The US Army issued a statement accepting
responsibility for the death of the two journalists in what it called
"accidental" fire, claiming that they were hit by "four to six bullets"
that were aimed at the car ahead of them that jumped a roadblock (even
accounting for panic, that's kind of lousy aim, there, to miss by an
entire vehicle and the distance between them). Assad Kadhim and Hussein
Saleh were Al-Iraqyia journalists, like the ones killed a month prior.
This brings the total to eleven.

2004.09.23: Mazen Al-Tomaizi killed by a missile fired from an Apache
helicopter while filming people gathered around a US tank that had been
set ablaze in a car bomb attack. Reuters footage showed the crowd to be
made up of unarmed boys and men, two of whom were standing on top of
the Bradley. This attack seemed to be aimed at the unarmed civilians,
and not the reporter specifically, however, so we'll leave the count at
eleven.

2004.11.01: Dhia Najim killed by sniper fire in Ramadi. The US claimed
at first that he was killed in a small arms firefight, but his video
footage showed no fighting at the time he was killed. The US admitted
that Marine snipers were present.

This brings the total to twelve, so if someone handed Eason Jordan the
same information I've just provided here, it's entirely possible that
he said what he did in good faith. Blogs keep decrying him as a liar,
and asking for names â€" here they are. It is admittedly a little
unfair to ask the US military to prove a negative, that these deaths
were not intentional... but then, we have most likely killed over a
hundred thousand civilians in Iraq, and taken horrendous casualties
among our own soldiers, because Saddam Hussein was unable to prove a
negative: that he had no weapons of mass destruction.

Other blogs discussing this issue:
Annika's Journal
Captain's Quarters
Dangerous Dan
The Foreign News Observer
The House of Wheels
Isaac Schrödinger
Myopic Zeal
My Sandmen
The National Political Observer
Opaque Lucidity
PDQ's Views
Power Line
Ramblings' Journal
RightPundit
The Smoking Room
Winds of Change
World Economic Forum
Other references:
Rehumanize: Journalists killed in Iraq
Reporters Without Borders: Journalists killed in Iraq
Kirkby Times: In memory of journalists killed in Iraq
International News Safety Institute: Journalists killed

Closing comments:

Boy, that took a lot of time and effort, but to all the bloggers and
commenters out there that never bothered to look this up, all out of
easily found information, you have no room to talk about sloppy
journalism or make accusations against Eason Jordan. It's one thing to
be wrong; it's another entirely to not even try, and then decry others
for their errors, and make accusations about "treason" and "slander". I
find it telling that out of all the blogs I saw talking about this, of
all the comments, only one blogger and one commenter even bothered to
look up the deaths in even a casual fashion, so I'll end this by giving
my compliments to Mr. Atos, of My Sandmen, and Ken Hechtman, on the
World Economic Forum.

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I'm sure if we really did a complete research on this topic, it would
be a lot more than 12.

Yautia


CNN's Jordan Resigns Over Iraq Remarks
News Chief Apologized For Comment on Troops
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17462-2005Feb11.html

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 12, 2005; Page A01

Eason Jordan resigned last night as CNN's chief news executive in an
effort to quell a burgeoning controversy over his remarks about U.S.
soldiers killing journalists in Iraq.

Even as he said he had misspoken at an international conference in
suggesting that coalition troops had "targeted" a dozen journalists and
insisted he never believed that, Jordan was being pounded hourly by
bloggers, liberals as well as conservatives, who provided the rocket
fuel for a story that otherwise might have fizzled.

Eason Jordan said he was resigning so that CNN wouldn't be "unfairly
tarnished."

Jordan, 44, said in a statement yesterday that he was quitting after 23
years at the network "to prevent CNN from being unfairly tarnished by
the controversy over conflicting accounts of my recent remarks
regarding the alarming number of journalists killed in Iraq. . . . I
never meant to imply U.S. forces acted with ill intent when U.S. forces
accidentally killed journalists, and I apologize to anyone who thought
I said or believed otherwise."

No definitive account of what Jordan said at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 27 has been made public, including the
forum's videotape of the off-the-record session. Two Democrats who were
there, Rep. Barney Frank (Mass.) and Sen. Christopher Dodd (Conn.),
criticized Jordan's remarks. Others in attendance, including U.S. News
& World Report editor at large David Gergen and BBC executive Richard
Sambrook, said Jordan had clarified his remarks.

New York University professor and blogger Jay Rosen said bloggers "made
a lot of noise" about the Jordan flap. "But there was basic reporting
going on -- finding the people who were there, getting them to make
statements, comparing one account to another -- along with accusations
and conspiracy thinking and the politics of paranoia and attacks on the
MSM, or mainstream media."

Journalist and blogger Jeff Jarvis said Jordan, like CBS News's Dan
Rather after his flawed story about President Bush's military service,
failed to acknowledge his mistake. "He could have said, 'Oops, I did
something stupid, I'm sorry.' Instead he came out with obfuscating
statements and now he's quit in shame."

Glenn Reynolds, who writes as InstaPundit, said "it was the
stonewalling, the lame response" that sealed Jordan's fate. "And
although there are some people calling it 'another scalp for the
blogosphere,' it was really a case of Jordan taking his own scalp."

In a memo to the staff, CNN News Group President Jim Walton praised
Jordan: "The regard in which he is held by people from every walk of
life in virtually every corner of the world has added incalculably to
our ability to cover such historic events as the Gulf War and the war
in Iraq, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the crackdown in
Tiananmen Square and the attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon."

Several CNN staffers say Jordan was eased out by top executives who had
lost patience with both the controversy and the continuing published
gossip about Jordan's personal life after a marital breakup. Jordan's
authority already had been greatly reduced after a management shakeup.

At the forum, Frank has said, Jordan seemed to be suggesting "it was
official military policy to take out journalists." Jordan later
"modified" his remarks to say some U.S. soldiers did this "maybe
knowing they were killing journalists, out of anger," Frank said.

In an interview this week, Jordan said he had been responding to
Frank's comment that the 63 journalists killed in Iraq were "collateral
damage." "I was trying to make a distinction between 'collateral
damage' and people who got killed in other ways," he said. Jordan cited
such 2003 incidents as the U.S. shelling of Baghdad's Palestine Hotel,
a haven for foreign journalists, in which two cameramen were killed,
and the fatal shooting of a cameraman outside Abu Ghraib prison.

Blogs operated by National Review Online, radio talk-show host Hugh
Hewitt and commentator Michelle Malkin were among those that began
slamming Jordan last week after a Davos attendee posted an online
account, but the establishment press was slow to pick up on the
controversy. The Washington Post and Boston Globe published stories
Tuesday and the Miami Herald ran one Thursday. Also on Thursday, Wall
Street Journal editorial board member Bret Stephens, who was at Davos,
published an account accusing Jordan of "defamatory innuendo," and the
Associated Press moved a story. As of yesterday, the New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and USA Today had not carried a
staff-written story, and the CBS, NBC and ABC nightly news programs had
not reported the matter. It was discussed on several talk shows on Fox
News, MSNBC and CNBC but not on CNN.

Gergen said Jordan's resignation was "really sad" since he had quickly
backed off his initial comments. "This is too high a price to pay for
someone who has given so much of himself over 20 years. And he's
brought down over a single mistake because people beat up on him in the
blogosphere? They went after him because he is a symbol of a network
seen as too liberal by some. They saw blood in the water."

In his statement, Jordan said: "I have great admiration and respect for
the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked
closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul" and other
places. "As for my colleagues at CNN, I am enormously proud to have
worked with you, risking my life in the trenches with you."

He touched off a furor with a New York Times op-ed piece in April 2003,
saying CNN had withheld information about some of Saddam Hussein's
abuses out of concern for its Iraqi employees in Baghdad. This sparked
criticism that the network was collaborating with a murderer's regime
to maintain its access. Jordan wrote that Hussein's son Uday had told
him in 1995 of plans to assassinate two of his brothers-in-law and the
man giving them asylum, King Hussein of Jordan. The CNN executive said
he had warned the king; the brothers-in-law were later killed.

Howard Kurtz hosts CNN's weekly media program."

See also :

  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/13/rs.01.html
  https://web.archive.org/web/20050205022138/http://www.forumblog.org/blog/2005/01/do_us_troops_ta.html
  https://web.archive.org/web/20050205043431/http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus200502030805.asp
  http://archive.pressthink.org/2005/02/05/jdn_note.html
  http://archive.pressthink.org/2005/02/07/samb_esn.html