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Reuters Joins Call for Probe of ’03 US Attack on Palestine Hotel

HeadlineMay 21, 2008

The international news agency Reuters is joining calls for a new probe into the 2003 US shelling of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk was killed in the attack along with Spanish cameraman Jose Couso of Telecinco. On Tuesday, Reuters followed the media rights group International Federation of Journalists in calling for a new investigation based on an appearance by former Army Sergeant Adrienne Kinne on Democracy Now! Last week, Sergeant Kinne said she saw the Palestine Hotel on a US military target list. She was working in military intelligence at the time. Kinne said she knew journalists were in the hotel because she was frequently intercepting their phone calls. Reuters says it will ask the Senate Armed Services Committee for a new probe. Meanwhile, in Spain, a Spanish judge investigating Couso’s death has called for Kinne to testify and agreed to enter a transcript of her Democracy Now! interview into evidence. The judge, Santiago Pedraz, has resisted Spanish government pressure to drop the case and says he plans to visit Baghdad to continue his investigation.

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