PrintNovember 9, 2005
Friendly Fire
'I have made arrangements for the correspondents of our papers to take the field, and I have suggested that they wear a white uniform to indicate the purity of their character.'
—Union General Irvin McDowell, prior to the first Battle of Bull Run (1861)
Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz has issued an international warrant for the arrest of three American soldiers whose tank fire killed a Spanish journalist and his Ukranian cameraman during the assault on Baghdad. Pedraz issued the warrant for the arrest of Lieutenant Colonel Philip de Camp, Captain Philip Wolford, and Sergeant Shawn Gibson. At the time of the incident in question all of them were assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division of Fort Stewart, Georgia. The U.S. military and the court system have not responded. It'll never happen.
It is a sad fact that journalists lost their lives during the campaign in Iraq but this was not unexpected by the news agencies and it is hardly unavoidable whenever reporters...(Read Full Article)
