From Democracy Now, witness and wounded journalist Olga Rodríguez gives an account of the event. Javier Couso, brother of the slain cameraman, José Couso, explains the national outrage in Spain their government would negotiate against a countryman. Read the full transcript here
And I couldn’t believe it, because I knew that they knew that that hotel, as everybody in the world knew, that hotel was the place in which were living 200 journalists from Europe, from America, and they were not far away. They didn’t arrive ten minutes before the attack. They were there before, 36 hours before. They knew exactly where the Palestine Hotel was, even from the bridge. They could—you can go to the bridge in Baghdad, and you can see Palestine Hotel in English in the building.
