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"Helomech" wrote in message ...
So what do we have here........ 3 guys slaughtered that were not carrying weapons - not pointing anything at anyone........perhaps trying to fix a busted tractor in the wrong place at the wrong time........ I don't see one weapon that the Iraqi's had..........anywhere in this video........ I've seen the full-length video. Probably about 9 minutes long, although I could be wrong. It's definitely long. Anyway, there's definitely a long cylindrical object that looks just right to be either an RPG or a MANPADS that one of the subjects pulls from the smaller truck and walks about 70-90 feet into the field and sets down. Anyone's guess as to what the story was, although to me it appeared like it was possibly an ambush site being stocked. The radio chatter is significant...there's a lot of back and forth discussion of what's being observed, what to do, and the clearance to fire doesn't come for a good 5-6 minutes. The first two subjects just flat-out disappear when fired on. The third was under the truck when he was spotted, and the first burst chewed up the front of the truck and some rounds looked like they made it underneath. When he crawls out, it sure looks like he's missing a leg and is hurt bad, so the second burst certainly put him out of his misery. Is it shocking? Yeah. Is it justified? Not my call to make, although I would presume that the actions they were undertaking were clear enough to identify as insurgency-related and that the Apache was the only viable option for intercepting the subjects. And I CERTAINLY believe that any news program would cut the vid to just the minute or so of target engagement at the expense of the context of the moment. |
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