Al Jazeera bombed

I've been waiting for this to happen: the US military has bombed the Basra hotel which is being used by Al Jazeera as a base for correspondents.

"The Basra Sheraton, whose only guests are al-Jazeera journalists, received four direct hits this morning during a heavy artillery bombardment," reports the Guardian.

"The shelling of the Basra Sheraton mirrors a similar incident during the Afghan war, when al-Jazeera accused the US military of deliberately targeting its Kabul office, despite having told the Americans where its reporters were based."

A "media war," indeed. First hacking, now this.