Spanish Judge wants 3 US soldiers for questioning.
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Tuesday June 07, 2005 20:31
by i
José Couso was a camaraman with TV5 one of the Spanish terrestial channels, he was 37 years of age, and was married with two children then aged 3 and 6 years, he was in the Palestine Hotel in Bagdhad in 2003, a building which was known to the occupying and iraqi forces to house members of the international media and aid volunteer corps.
They were and are protected under article IV Geneva Convention 12/8/49
and the summary protocols and additions of 8/6/77 to which the USA are party.
He was killed on the 8th of April 2003.
His family have succeeded today, in persuading a prosecution judge of the Spanish judiciary Santiago Pedraz to arraign those members of the US defence forces responsible for the attack on the Hotel Palestine on the 8th of april 2003.
There are 3 names.
They are :
sergeant Thomas Gibson,
captain Philip Wolford
lieutenant colonel Philip de Camp
of the the 64th armoured regiment of the 3rd division of infantry.
His family (David Couso) spoke to Europa press earlier today:-
http://www.europapress.es/europa2003/noticia.aspx?cod=20050607173251&tabID=1&ch=68
http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/jose_couso_audiencia_nacional_eeuu_339072.htm
http://www.plus.es/codigo/noticias/ficha_noticia.asp?id=477983
http://actualidad.tiscali.es/articulo.jsp?pos=0&sub=1&content=356872
http://www.diariodeleon.es/inicio/noticia.jsp?CAT=102&TEXTO=100000016122
This is how it was reported, a skynews camera man was in the same hotel:-
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2003/04/08/enespecial/1049789321.html
This will be updated.