Get those guys some new glasses or binauculars.

This really ticks me off and why does it seem like it is American troops who make such stupid mistakes?

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops shot dead an award-winning Reuters cameraman while he was filming on Sunday near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.

Eyewitnesses said soldiers on an American tank shot at Mazen Dana, 43, as he filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad which had earlier come under a mortar attack.

Dana's last pictures show a U.S. tank driving toward him outside the prison walls. Several shots ring out from the tank, and Dana's camera falls to the ground.

The U.S. military acknowledged on Sunday that its troops had "engaged" a Reuters cameraman, saying they had thought his camera was a rocket propelled grenade launcher.

"Army soldiers engaged an individual they thought was aiming an RPG at them. It turned out to be a Reuters cameraman," Navy Captain Frank Thorp, a spokesman for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Reuters in Washington...

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Don't news people wear something that identifies them as journalists? That is the first question I would like. Even if they don't, I would think that someone would have inspected the situation with some sort of high powered scope to get a better look, or doesn't the U.S. military issue such essentials?

Well, I have my own battles to face in the office this week as the firm is busy trying to photocopy thousands of documents for some lawyers. It is a monstrous job but I think I will be on the sidelines, more or less, with this one however the office is rather chaotic during the process. Time for slumberland now. I have had a full day and now am feeling a little tired. Was up late late night too but that is another story.

Bonne nuit.