Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: alt.activism Subject: Re: Panama Info Message-ID: Date: 16 Jan 90 20:28:01 GMT References: Organization: Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: Peter Glen Berger writes: > I was in Spain at the time of the Panama invasion, and here's a little > item that most if not all US "news" sources "forgot" to include in > their coverage: > > US troops burst into a hotel lobby where there were no Panamanian > soldiers (or weaponry of any kind, for that matter), where a number of > reporters from other countries were staying. They apparently opened > fire indiscriminately and somewhat randomly, killing a Spanish > photographer and seriously wounding several other reporters. I will > try to find an "official" attribution for this, I saw it reported on > Spanish TV. According to the US media, what happened was that two groups of US soldiers mistakenly started shooting at *each other* (whoops); the reporters had the misfortune of being somewhere between them... -Miles