On April 8 2003, Palestinian reporter Tareq Ayyoub was reporting for Al Jazeera on the US invasion of Iraq when he was killed by two US missiles which struck the network headquarters in Baghdad. The station was clearly marked as a media centre, and the US military had been informed of its location. On the same day, the Abu Dhabi TV station was also hit in a different area of Baghdad, and a US tank fired shells at the Palestine Hotel, where most of the foreign journalists were staying. Journalists Taras Protsyuk of Reuters and Jose Couso of the Spanish network Telecinco were killed. A total of …