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Sunday, April 07, 2002
 
Some People Never Learn

Marie Colvin is a reporter for The (UK) Times. This story (link requires registration) is apparently her second in which she reports about being hit with a grenade for being in an area closed to reporters.
I never saw the grenade that hit me last year. I was attacked by the Sri Lankan army in the dead of night as I tried to walk out of Tamil-controlled territory from which journalists had been banned.

Journalists are also banned from Ramallah, but I believed Israeli soldiers were disciplined enough to understand that we are not military targets. I was wrong.
Of course her (typically European and self-righteous) lesson learned here is that if this can happen to journalists than the Palestinian common folk have no chance. I hope she's right.

Break: I must need some coffee. I seem more full of piss and vinegar than usual this morning.