The Killing Fields

So, Marie Colvin wasn’t just killed, the French photographer Remi Ochlik and herself were murdered by the Syrian regular army.  Intercepts from Syrian intelligence shows that they knew where western journalists were based in Homs and actively targeted this building to stop them reporting on the destruction.  It is a norm of conflict (not to mention Geneva conventions) that you don’t intentionally kill reporters, especially those from neutral countries.  The Syrian government denounces the rebels as terrorists but on placing themselves on a par with the radicals who executed Daniel Pearl, not to mention inflicting wholesale anguish on civilians, the regime in Damascus are proving themselves ever more the true terrorists.