Обстрел отелей в Багдаде и гибель журналистов в 2003 году.

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On April 8, 2003, three locations in Baghdad housing journalists were fired upon by U. S. armed forces during 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing three journalists and wounding four.

Two American air to surface missiles hit the Qatar satellite TV station at Al Jazeera's office in Baghdad and killed Tareq Ayyoub, a Palestinian reporter, and wounded Zouhair al Iraqi, an Iraqi cameraman. They were live broadcasting on the roof of the building. Al Jazeera accused the U. S. of intentionally targeting Al Jazeera as the U. S. bombed its Kabul bureau in 2001 during the U. S. invasion of Afghanistan.

A U. S. Army tank fired into the 15th floor of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, where almost all foreign journalists were based. The image of the hotel had been frequently broadcast in the news, since many journalists filmed their reports nearby. The tank fire killed the Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk and wounded three. José Couso of Telecinco Spanish television who was on the 14th floor also died. At the time, Company A of the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment was holding the west end of the al Jumhuria Bridge. The U. S. Forces were under attack from Iraqi units on both sides of the Tigris River, including mortar fire. Earlier that morning, the battalion had captured an Iraqi two way radio, over which they heard an Iraqi forward observer directing mortar fire against Company A. This information was relayed to the forces at the bridge, who began looking for the enemy spotter. An A Company tank spotted an individual on a balcony on the upper floor of a high rise building to the southeast who appeared to be observing the company with "some kind of optics" (likely Protsyuk). Assuming this was the enemy spotter, the tank commander asked for and received permission to fire. The tank fired a high explosive anti tank (HEAT) round at the balcony, killing Protsyuk and Couso. Before the incident, no one in the 4 64 had been briefed about the Palestine Hotel or its location, since the hotel was not in their sector (the east bank of the Tigris was allocated to the 1st Marine Division). U. S. forces later determined that the Iraqi artillery spotter was probably in a nearby building, not the hotel. In 2008, whistleblower Sgt. Adrienne Kinne, a former Arabic linguist in U. S. Army Intelligence, reported that she had seen secret documents listing the Palestine Hotel as a possible military target before the 2003 shelling incident in which it was targeted.

Office of the United Arab Emirates satellite channel Abu Dhabi was hit by air strikes. The station aired the picture of Iraqi fire from beneath the camera.

On May 27, 2003, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a report of their investigation into the tank shelling of the Palestine Hotel on April 8, 2003. After interviewing "about a dozen reporters who were at the scene, including two embedded journalists who monitored the military radio traffic before and after the shelling occurred" the CPJ determined that the facts suggest that the "attack on the journalists, while not deliberate, was avoidable". The CPJ determined that the tank's intended target was an Iraqi forward artillery observer when it hit the hotel. The report went on to say "CPJ has learned that Pentagon officials, as well as commanders on the ground in Baghdad, knew that the Palestine Hotel was full of international journalists and were intent on not hitting it."