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How is it a war crime? You can prove a criminal intent to murder non-combatants, in cold blood, just for the hell-of-it? Or, is the reality that there's no way that you, nor anyone else can say with any amount of certainty what the prespective was of the soldiers doing the shooting and that it was just another unfortunate incident that happens in war?
It's really ****ed up, that American servicemen have to worry more about being fingered for a war crime, than being killed by the enemy.
I know what I saw. People trying to crawl away for their lives. Not a single weapon ever pointed up at the apache way high in the sky. There should be a rule that if someone is crawling on their belly with zero weapons you cant shoot them. Let alone opening fire on drivers that haven't been assessed yet. When you are in war you should be 100% certian of your targets or you dont fire. Even if your life is in danger.
It was obvious the routers guy never had a weapon and yet they go to great lengths to purposely terminate him. After he is obviously just struggling to stay alive, pose no threat. I guess dead witnesses can't defend themselves when it comes to legal battles. Looked alot like a full-snuff operation to me. That chopper wanted to make sure everyone was dead and was indescriminate with no care for what he targeted.
You could argue thats what had to be done because there are no rules for surrendering to aircraft. So the only option was full-kill. But minutes after this happened this area was swarmed with US foot troops. Seems to me like the chopper gunner wanted to kill them all and let god sort them out before ground troops arrived. Well the dead here didnt volunteer their lives. Our troops did.
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