Collateral Murder

[hobbit]

Mendicate Bias said:

hobbit said:

http://cryptome.org/info/reuters-kill-2/reuters-kill-2.htm

Army report is out; they found weapons and rpgs, as you can see in the video if you really cared to watch,  the wikileaks video is lying about the kids being turned over to the iraqi hostpital. They were taken to FOB Loyalty, and were transfered the next day to the Iraqi hospital to recover.

Thats not the army report, thats just an analysis of the video by another website.

@Sqrl

There are no justifications for the second attack. Like I said there were no weapons on the men from the mini-van who had come to help and there was nothing stopping the helicopter from following the van if they suspected they were insurgents and seeing if they went to a hospital or a insurgent hideout. All they had to do was transmit the vans location and it would have been stopped en-route by ground forces who could verify the situation far better.

Secondly these are expert soldiers behind those videos who have been trained for years on the use of the equipment and shown how to spot out the smallest details so yes I do expect them to see the children in the car window.

Also considering the number of friendly fire incidents our military has had in this war do you honestly believe they know the location and in fact even existence of every single camera crew and contract military worker in Iraq? I seriously doubt that. 

those pics are from part of the army report. you can dl the report by clicking the zipfile link at the top.