{"id":457,"date":"2004-04-21T10:09:12","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=457"},"modified":"2004-04-21T10:09:12","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T14:09:12","slug":"journalists-shot-without-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"Journalists shot without warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/editorial\/20040421\/1006178.asp\">4\/21\/2004 <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. military acknowledged that American soldiers killed two employees of a U.S.-funded Iraqi television station, saying the men may have failed to heed warning shots. However, a wounded cameraman said troops opened fire on their vehicle without warning. <\/p>\n<p>Angry Iraqi journalists joined a chanting, weeping crowd Tuesday as two pickup trucks carried the flag-draped coffins of the slain men into Baghdad. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting of Al-Iraqiya correspondent Asaad Kadhim and his driver, Hussein Saleh, was galling for many employees because their station &#8211; funded by the Pentagon and broadcasting from U.S. coalition headquarters &#8211; is derided by many Iraqis as a source of American propaganda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press 4\/21\/2004 The U.S. military acknowledged that American soldiers killed two employees of a U.S.-funded Iraqi television station, saying the men may have failed to heed warning shots. However, a wounded cameraman said troops opened fire on their vehicle &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-7n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}