Depressingly but unsurprisingly, the final official report into a military assault on the Palestine Hotel in April last year, which killed the journalists José Couso and Taras Protsyuk, has concluded that "no fault or negligence" can be attributed to the US army (Source: Reporters Sans Frontieres)

Troops from the Alpha 4-64 Armor Company fired into the hotel even though anyone with even the most basic knowledge of Baghdad knew the place was stuffed with western journalists.

However, it seems no one in the military chain of command thought to tell the grunts with their fingers on the trigger.