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Topic started on 17-1-2004 @ 03:27 PM by Netchicken
www.journalism.co.uk...

Anyone seen this yet?
You can download the video of it....


A graphic US military video showing the killing of three Iraqi people is being circulated via the web after appearing on US TV news channel ABC News.


more.abcnews.go.com...

The video, obtained by ABCNEWS, shows grainy images of three Iraqis on the ground handling a long cylindrical object that the helicopter pilots believe is a weapon.

The pilots, from the Army's 4th Infantry Division, ask their commanders for permission to engage, then take the three men out one by one, using the Apache's devastating 30 mm cannons.


[Edited on 17-1-2004 by Netchicken]


reply posted on 17-1-2004 @ 04:05 PM by ArchAngel
www.thecia.net...

I could not see the video at the link without registering, which I would rather not do. Here is another video of the event.

I cannot see anywhere that anyone had anything that looked like a weapon. There was farm equipment and a truck, but no weapons.


reply posted on 17-1-2004 @ 04:17 PM by KillerD
Link to the Story

A senior Army official who viewed the tape said the pilots had the legal right to kill the men because they were carrying a weapon. He said there were no ground troops in the area and if the Apache pilots had let the three Iraqis go, the men might have gone on to kill American troops.

Keane agreed. "Those weapons were obviously not being pointed at them in particular, but they [the three Iraqis] are using those weapons in their minds for lethal means and they [the Apache pilots] have a right to interfere with that," he said.



[Edited on 17-1-2004 by KillerD]

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