Maybe I was wrong in my previous entry. It appears that the Pentagon is threatening to kill independent reporters in Iraq.

Kate Adie, a veteran BBC war correspondent, was told by senior Pentagon official “that if uplinks –that is the television signals out of… Bhagdad, for example– were detected by any planes …electronic media… mediums, of the military above Baghdad… they’d be fired down on. Even if they were journalists”.

If you think that whatever coverage you might see on the news is 100% not filtered, you are very wrong.

“The Americans are: a) Asking journalists who go with them, whether they are… have feelings against the war. And therefore if you have views that are skeptical, then you are not to be acceptable. Secondly, they are intending to take control of the Americans technical equipment …those uplinks and satellite phones I was talking about. And control access to the airwaves. And then on top of everything else, there is now a blackout (which was imposed, during the last war, at the beginning of the war), …ordered by one Mr. Dick Cheney, who is in charge of this”