'US Lied About Deaths of Journalists in the Palestine Hotel': "The shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by an American tank, which killed two journalists and injured two others, was an act of 'criminal negligence', said a report by an international media watchdog.
Reporters Sans Fronti?res (RSF) accused US authorities of concocting lies to hide what had happened on 8 April last year, and a subsequent official 'investigation' was nothing more than a whitewash. They said the Bush administration must bear some responsibilities for the deaths as US forces entered the Iraqi capital, as well as the 'cover-up' which followed.
... The report charges General Buford Blount, their commander, of bearing a "heavy responsibility for not providing the necessary information that would have prevented the deaths of the journalists"."
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