Old Weird Ward
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
- - - - - Apple Migration to Intel Processors - - - - -
So, Steve Jobs is migrating Apple from PowerPC processors to the Intel offerings.
Well, Apple's about to succumb to the Osborne Syndrome, in which a new product, not quite available yet, is announced - and sales of current products stop dead while users wait for the new stuff.
Holding Apple stock? How do you like using stock certificates for real wallpaper?
- - - - - Spaniards Want to Question US Soldiers - - - - -
Look HERE for the story.
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish judge wants to question three U.S. soldiers as suspects in the death of a Spanish cameraman who was killed when a U.S. tank fired on a hotel housing foreign journalists during the 2003 assault on Baghdad.
The Pentagon has found no fault with the soldiers, but High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz wants to question the three men who were in the tank, a court official said on Tuesday.
Telecinco cameraman Jose Couso and Reuters cameraman Taras Protsiuk died and several other people were injured by a shell fired on the Palestine Hotel in the Iraqi capital on April 8, 2003, in the U.S.-led war to topple Saddam Hussein.
The Spanish court would only have jurisdiction in the death of the Spanish citizen.
The soldiers would be questioned as suspects for murder and for crimes against the international community, which carry sentences of 15 to years in jail and 10 to 15 years respectively.
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COMMENTARY:
I remember this story, which led to the infamous Eason Jordan quote about "journalists are being targeted by the US military", which is, of course, absolute horse-hockey.
At that location, at that time, was a "hot" combat zone, wherein unfriendly people were making things go bang at US troops. In other words, a (caps intentional) WAR ZONE - which means that if you even look like you're a threat, you get blown away.
That news crews exercised excreble judgement and got "blown away" for their idiocy.
So far, the US has told the Spaniards to FOAD.
Good.
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