What Was Eason Jordan Talking About?

I'm sure you all know about Eason Jordan's irresponsible comments at the Davos conference. If not, there are plenty of places to go for a roundup. I was wondering what targetings Jordan might have been referring to? I remembered this story:

Cameramen for the Reuters news agency and the Spanish TV station Telecinco were killed Tuesday when a tank shell struck the Palestine Hotel, where many international journalists are known to be staying, in central Baghdad. Three other journalists in the same hotel were wounded.

And a reporter for the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera was killed when an airstrike and tank artillery hit the network's Baghdad bureau, a two-story building on the other side of the Tigris River from the Palestine Hotel. Three other Al-Jazeera employees were wounded, the network said.

I remember Christiane Amanpour being very upset and bitter about this incident on the air:

"Even if there was sniper fire coming there, aimed towards massively armored tanks, was that risk commensurate with the risk of civilian casualty by firing a tank shell into the Palestine Hotel or firing some kind of explosive into the Al-Jazeera office?" asked Christiane Amanpour, the chief international correspondent for CNN, from Kuwait City.

"That is a very serious question which needs an urgent answer," she said.

I understand why she was upset, some colleagues of hers had just been killed. And I understand why the emotions of the moment would cause her to blame the U.S. Army. I would think that, upon further reflection, journalists would realize what an inherently chaotic situation combat is, and that anyone covering a war zone is at risk. Indeed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 12 journalists were killed in Iraq in 2003 alone, 4 by US forces. 19 more were killed in 2004, 2 by US forces. Are these at least some of the 12 journalists Jordan was talking about?
2003:

Terry Lloyd, ITVKILLED—CONFIRMEDLloyd, a veteran correspondent with ITV News, was confirmed dead on March 23 by the British TV network ITN, which produces ITV News. The previous day, he had disappeared after coming under fire while driving to the southern city of Basra. Two others disappeared with Lloyd, cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein Othman. They remain missing.... An investigative article published in the Wall Street Journal in May indicated that Lloyd's SUV and another vehicle belonging to his colleagues came under fire from U.S. Marines. The article cited accounts from U.S. troops who recalled opening fire on cars marked "TV." Soldiers also said they believed that Iraqi suicide bombers were using the cars to attack U.S. troops.

José Couso, TelecincoKILLED—CONFIRMEDCouso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco, died after a U.S. tank fired a shell at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where most journalists in the city were based during the war. At around 12 p.m., a shell hit two hotel balconies where several journalists were monitoring a battle in the vicinity. Taras Protsyuk, a Ukranian cameraman for Reuters, was also killed in the attack.... Centcom offered some detail—consistent with CPJ's investigation—that the tank opened fire at what it believed was an Iraqi "spotter" directing enemy fire at U.S. troops. The release also explained that "one 120mm tank round was fired at the suspected enemy observer position. ... It was only some time after the incident that A Company became aware of the fact that the building they fired on was the Palestine Hotel and that journalists at the hotel had been killed or injured as a result."

Taras Protsyuk, ReutersKILLED—CONFIRMEDProtsyuk, a cameraman for Reuters, died after a U.S. tank fired a shell at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where most journalists in the city were based during the war. At around 12 p.m., a shell hit two hotel balconies where several journalists were monitoring a battle in the vicinity. José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco, also died in the attack.

Here is the CPJ report on the Hotel Palesine attack.

2004:

Asaad Kadhim, Al-Iraqiyya TVKILLED Kadhim, a correspondent for the U.S.-funded Al-Iraqiya TV, and his driver, Hussein Saleh, were killed by gunfire from U.S. forces near a checkpoint close to the Iraqi city of Samara, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) northwest of the capital, Baghdad. Cameraman Jassem Kamel was injured in the shooting. On April 20, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of operations for coalition forces in Iraq, confirmed that U.S. troops killed the journalist and his driver. According to media reports, Kimmitt said that coalition forces at the checkpoint warned the journalists' vehicle to stop by firing several warning shots. When the vehicle ignored those shots, Kimmitt said, forces fired at the car.... Cameraman Kamel told the AP that no warning shots had been fired at the vehicle.

Mazen al-Tumeizi, Al-ArabiyaKILLED-CONFIRMED Mazen al-Tumeizi, a reporter for Al-Arabiya television was killed after a U.S. helicopter fired missiles and machine guns to destroy a disabled American vehicle, international news reports said. Seif Fouad, a camera operator for Reuters Television, and Ghaith Abdul Ahad, a freelance photographer working for Getty Images, were wounded in the strike.

There were also 3 journalists killed in Iraq in 2004 from gunshots whose source is unclear.
If these incidents are what Jordan is referring to, he is twisting matters. None of these are clearcut cases of troops targeting journalists. In each case, the firing troops clearly expressed that they thought they were under threat. All of them are tragic. Such is war. It seems to me that the understandable grief and anger at the deaths of these colleagues has pushed journalists at CNN beyond the bounds of impartiality, and that showed through in Jordan's comments.

Update: Michelle Malkin is all over this. Interviews with Barney Frank and David Gergen - who says bloggers aren't journalists?