CNN correspondent rejects Fox report on human shields – CNN.com: “Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — A CNN correspondent on Monday angrily rejected a report by the Fox network that he and other journalists were used as human shields by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to prevent a missile attack on his compound. The Fox story, labeled ‘exclusive’ and posted on the Fox website Monday, said the presence of news crews from CNN, Reuters and other organizations forced a British aircraft to call off firing seven Storm Shadow missiles at the area that already had been hit. ‘Officials from Libya’s Ministry of Information brought those journalists to the area to show them damage from the initial attack and to effectively use them as human shields,’ said the Fox report. According to the Fox story, the curtailed strike ‘led to a great deal of consternation by coalition commanders.’ Nic Robertson, a veteran CNN correspondent who was part of the CNN crew cited in the Fox story, called the rival network’s report ‘outrageous and hypocritical.’ CNN refutes ‘human shield’ claims Gadhafi’s compound attacked RELATED TOPICS Libya Moammar Gadhafi FOX News Network LLC Nic Robertson Cable News Network Robertson said a Fox staffer was among the journalists on the trip — a fact left out of the Fox report — and that the journalists in the group were hurried through their trip by their minders. ‘To say it was a human shield is nuts,’ Robertson said, later adding: ‘I expect lies from the government here. I don’t expect it from other journalists. It’s frankly incredibly disappointing.’ There was no immediate response from Fox to a CNN request for comment.”