NP - Terrorism is

[David Morris]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-000025168apr08.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dworld

JERUSALEM -- In his three decades covering wars in the Mideast, television 
producer Charles Enderlin has had his run-ins with Israeli soldiers--but 
never a nasty rebuff like the one he got last week.

Trying to reach Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's besieged 
West Bank headquarters, Enderlin and his TV France 2 crew were turned back 
at an Israeli checkpoint. Before leaving, they tried to film the soldiers 
but were ordered to stop.

"Show me a written order that I cannot film here," the producer demanded. 
"Instead of a paper, you're going to get a bullet in your camera," snarled 
an Israeli reservist, raising his automatic rifle.

After more bickering, the producer turned his back and headed toward his 
car.

Then came the reservist's parting shot. A bullet sliced through the air 
between Enderlin and his cameraman at chest level.

As Israel wages its biggest military campaign in the West Bank in 35 years, 
journalists trying to cover it are running up against the ultimate 
roadblock--Israeli bullets fired at them, often without warning. Veteran 
correspondents and a media watchdog group say the restrictions are the 
tightest they have ever seen here and are meant to conceal what the Israelis 
are doing in reoccupied Palestinian cities.




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