Aus der gestrigen Pressekonferenz des US Central Command:

Q (Inaudible) -- Al Jazeera. Today, your plane hit Al Jazeera office in Baghdad. One of our colleagues was killed during the attack. The office of Abu Dhabi TV also hit, as well as the Palestine Hotel where most of journalists are staying.

Do these attacks mean that you will intensify your military campaign against Baghdad and that you don't need the journalists to cover the bloodshed which will be (taken in?) Baghdad? Thank you.

GEN. BROOKS: (...) There were some combat actions that also occurred at the Palestine Hotel. Initial reports indicate that the coalition force operating near the hotel took fire from the lobby of the hotel and returned fire. And any loss of life, civilian loss of life or unintended consequences, again, we find most unfortunate and also undesirable. (...)

Q Jeff Reed (sp) from Sky News. If I can continue on the point you made there, if you're claiming fire was coming from the lobby of the Palestine Hotel, why was this tank round directed at an upper floor? And what does that kind of marksmanship, or lack of it, suggest about the risks to civilians as your forces penetrate further into Baghdad?

GEN. BROOKS: The response of fire is something that we always have to give details as time goes on for specifically where the fire was returned and what was hit, where the fire came from. So I may have misspoken on exactly where the fire came from.

(Eigene Hervorhebungen) Gestern auch schon in den Fernsehnachrichten, aber dort wollte ich aufgrund darübergelegter Übersetzung noch an ein Verhören glauben ...