Caroline Sinz was in the Palestine hotel when it was bombed by the American troops. A shell ripped into her floor two rooms over. She was on the phone about to file a report and witnessed the mayhem firsthand.

"I let the phone drop in the waste basket and I ran in the hallway to see what happened. I entered the room and I saw the Spanish cameraman that had been on the balcony filming like us. He was lying on the floor with his leg blown off. We tried to evacuate him to the hospital but it was total panic because the elevators didn't work anymore. We had to come down 14 floors and nobody was there."

"I was so surprised because in Baghdad we thought we were in danger from the Iraqis. And it was a shock that the Americans shot against journalists, against freedom of the press. And I think they wanted to do it like that. They wanted to shoot against the press to say, we are in Baghdad now and everything is possible so be careful."

"They [the americans] told me how they came all the way from Kuwait at full speed in the desert shooting at everything and at anything that moved. They were young people that were just starting the military service. They just wanted to go back home and every day that was not the case, they stayed in Baghdad. The journalists were very anxious, the people in Baghdad were anxious and these young soldiers were very, very anxious."

"Before we were under the pressure of the Iraqis and without freedom. And when the Americans arrived, there wasn't more freedom. The Americans forbid us from certain places. By killing 3 journalists on that day, they frightened the journalists that were on the ground."

"I will remember the eyes of the women in Baghdad. So tired, so worried - all the nights they sleep with their children held close because if a bomb falls on their house, they want to die with them."