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"This
quilt square commemorates Jose Couso, a Spanish television cameraman
killed by U.S. missile fire on 8 April, 2003 as he was filming the
war from his 14th floor hotel room. The U.S. military justified
its attack on the hotel where many foreign journalists stayed as
'an unfortunate accident of war,' claiming U.S. troops were responding
to sniper fire. José Couso was 37 years old, married, with
a young child. Since his death, his brothers worked with the Spanish
anti-war movement filing suits against Aznar's government seeking
to have Spain's participation in the war declared illegal. After
the horrific attack on Madrid on 11 March, 2004, the Aznar government
was voted out of office and replaced with a socialist prime minister
who pledged to withdraw all Spanish troops from Iraq. Por la Paz,"
Jane,
Brooklyn, NY. |
