No Charges Of US Targeting Journalists

WaPo ran a big story today on how dangerous it is to be an Iraqi journalist -- 85 of them have been killed in the last two years.

I hope Linda Foley, president of the Newspaper Guild, read the article. She recently repeated Eason Jordan's career-ending action, declaring with no evidence that US forces deliberately target journos in Iraq.

The WaPo piece details horrific actions by insurgent terrorists against journos, the kind of thing Foley should have been bringing to the world's attention, like this:

More recent incidents have been particularly alarming. Five journalists were killed over a four-day period in April, including Ahmed Rubaie, a reporter for Baghdad's al-Sabah newspaper who was kidnapped and reportedly beheaded. ...

And May 16, on a highway south of Baghdad, insurgents stopped a minibus with 13 passengers aboard, three of whom carried press passes, according to Samir Adili of the Iraqi National Journalism Panel, a newly formed advocacy group. The three journalists were shot dead, he said.

Where's the outrage over that, Linda? And what about the Eason/Foley claims regarding US soldiers? Did the anti-war WaPo come up with anything to verify that particular rant? No. This is the full discussion:

... the International Federation of Journalists says 14 journalists have been killed by American forces since 2003.

In one incident, a correspondent and a cameraman for the al-Arabiya television network were shot dead at a Baghdad checkpoint when U.S. soldiers firing at a different vehicle mistakenly hit their car.

Foley has no business heading up the nation's major representative of journalists.