Apache gun camera video

"Helomech " wrote in message
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"Andrew" wrote in message
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http://w3.kill-9.com/apache_kills.mpeg

Andrew


Although it is amazing to see combat video like this........

Certain things don't look exactly kosher to me...........

1. Does anyone else notice that these Iraqi's were walking up to a
tractor,
one was in the drivers seat?

Yep, assumedly some of what was seen is not on this video.

2. After the first Iraqi is killed, the one next to the tractor waves a
piece of cloth in the air - which is a sign of surrender and commonly
used
by Iraqi's ......... and the Apache gunner shoots him anyway....

I wouldn't go that far.
It looks to me that the man by the tractor is tearing the covering off a
bundle.
Just as the cross hairs go back to him you can see something flexible on the
ground in front of him he is "working" with. With his left hand he pulls of
the
cloth with a long jerk that throws his arm and the cloth behind him and
slightly
into the air as he is leaned over. This is not a surrender wave as he drops
that
item and leans farther over and puts his hands to what is left.
In fact if you watch carefully on full screen you can see this guy pulling
something out of the tractor as he disappears of the left side as the gun
tracks
the man that came down off the tractor.
Given the general shape and size of the object "waved" I can't help thinking
"gun case."
At any rate, the waving "in the air" is just the quick back swing of what
ever
cloth removal from what ever source.

3. The last Iraqi shot, was wounded and rolling on the ground - even
though
the gunner reported him wounded he was told to shoot him again
anyway........ so now it is ok to shoot the wounded and those that wish to
surrender?

Wounded, yea, if you just wounded them, they are over there, you are over
here
and you have no means of taking them prisoner.
Surrendering? I see no one trying to surrender.

4. You'll notice even the gunner thought this to be a bit excessive, and
he
seems to have targeted the truck on the right - instead of moving forward
as
ordered (With the sight) and hitting the wounded iraqi directly...........

If you say so.

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........

It would have been better to capture them. But that requires a patrol in
the area and who says there was one?

I don't see one weapon that the Iraqi's had..........anywhere in this
video........

See more of the video and I'll wager you do.