Testimony from Palestine Hotel
April 15, 2003
THE lift door opened. With grim faces, several men lifted bundles wrapped in damp blankets that were turning red with fresh blood. Inside them were the still-warm bodies of two reporters and a cameraman. The three had collapsed after a projectile exploded on the fifteenth floor of the Palestine Hotel, Baghdad, on the morning of April 8. When the explosion shook the hotel, TEMPO reporter Rommy Fibri, who was in the lobby, immediately lay do
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