Phillip Knightley's credentials.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

SIR: In the July-August Quadrant Nell McDonald takes one Phillip Knightley as an authority for the allegation that the Pentagon murdered journalists in the recent Gulf War. Mr McDonald claims:

 
   Phillip Knightley has concluded 
   that: "The Pentagon is 
   determined that there will be no 
   more reporting from the enemy 
   side, and that a few deaths 
   among correspondents who do 
   so [sic] will deter others. To 
   that end I believe that the 
   occasional shots fired at 'media 
   sites' are not accidental and that 
   war correspondents may now be 
   targets, some more than others." 

Mr McDonald embellishes this with the following:

 
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