? US military threatens to bomb independent journalists

According to BBC’s veteran war correspondent Kate Adie, Pentagon wants absolute monopoly on reporting from the coming war in Iraq. She told Irish radio that a senior Pentagon officer had told that if a US warplane detects an unauthorised satellite uplink, they will fire at it.

Furthermore, the US military vets journalists who wants to follow US troops what they mean about the war, to prevent war-skeptics from even being in the theatre. At any rate, communications equipment will be controlled by military censors.

Unlike the previous Gulf war, where information was relatively freely available, this time the US military insists on total control of the reporting. [Secular Blasphemy]

Relatively freely available? Niet echt. De Amerikanen hebben in de vorige golfoorlog de media aan honderd per uur gemanipuleerd, het verschil is dat ze een stuk subtieler waren dan nu blijkbaar het geval is.