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US was set to bomb journalists' hotelBerlin: United States troops who on April 8 fired on the main Baghdad hotel occupied by journalists, killing two, had called in fighter planes to bomb the building, a German journalist who witnessed the event says. "The tank commander called for support from the air. But he did not know the building was a hotel," said Ulrich Tilgner, on ZDF public television. A US journalist, "embedded" with the troops, told the Americans the Palestine Hotel was used as a base by the international media and the strike was called off, Tilgner said. The US troops who killed two television journalists claimed they were fired on by Iraqi gunmen who had taken refuge in the hotel, but journalists at the scene denied this. A cameraman from France3 television filmed the tank as it turned and raised its main gun, waited for about two minutes and then fired. Agence France-Presse
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