"Who Fired On The Helicopters?"

[Fidel]

perhaps it was a bit of piety, rather than antisemitism?

[Ned]

"Who fired on the helicopters?" is what the Special Forces soldier is reported to have said. They were conducting a special ops at the time. The B52 and gunships were brought in later to back up the Special Forces.

[Pekka]

Ned, yeah.. i got that later too. My mistake. Makes my earlier questions more irrelevant and wrong.. anyway i gave it a shot!

[Case]

Australian SAS troops got into a firefight a month ago when they started shooting in responce to a wedding party's celebratory gunfire

[ravagon]

Originally posted by MarkG
this is amazing

Reuters

At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan on Monday, Afghan officials and residents said.

CNN

The U.S. military said Monday an unknown number of civilians had been killed after coalition aircraft dropped bombs in an area around Tarin Kowt in southern Afghanistan.

so CNN doesnt have any people in Afganistan and has Pentagon as it's only source?

Bit of a jump there Marky.
CNN quotes a Pentagon source therefore they don't have anybody in Afghanistan??

And wasn't it a Reuters agent, er, journalist, who had that grenade to "interview/photograph" in the West Bank last month?

[MarkG]

CNN quotes a Pentagon source therefore they don't have anybody in Afghanistan??

the Reuters article had both local people and the Pentagon as sources. BBC the same.
CNN just the Pentagon....

[Deathwalker]

Just more friendly fire from your friend air force

[Saint Marcus]

Saint Marcus will be here shortly Eli.

And yeah, this is once again a **** up by the US. What else is new? We can all ***** about it till we drop, it won't make the US military any more competent.

And the US doesn't have to worry about the ICC. After all, I don't think they'll put mentally challenged servicemen on trial.

It's sad that people so stupid are allowed to use such powerful weapons.


The worst is, that this isn't the first time a wedding was bombed.

From Time:

It was a wedding party on a late December night. But from the air it looked to the pilots like what their intelligence source had claimed: a gathering of Al Qaeda terrorists. Dozens of cars had converged on Qila-Niazi, a hamlet of 12 mud-walled homes in the shadow of a snowy ridge 80 miles southeast of Kabul. The women were gossiping and painting their hands with red henna. The men were in another room playing cards and dancing. Music drowned out the sounds of the US warplanes overhead. At 10:30 pm, the first bombs struck the party; the assault lasted 6 hours.

Out of 112 people, two women had survived.

Very sad.

[Solly]

In war, accidents happen.

[Sava]

I think its more sad that someone would give Saddam Hussein recognition by making him their avatar. Why don't you just put Hitler up? We all know you want to.

[Saint Marcus]

So you think it is more sad that I use a pic of Sadam as my avatar, than that 112 people have died by American bombs? Sick view of the world you have.

Anyway, it seems my avatroll worked. Thanks Sava, I didn't expect it to be so easy.

[Sava]

People die, yeah it sucks. But I think that glorification of evil is worse than death.

[MarkG]

But I think that glorification of evil is worse than death.

so why do you have a cuban drug dealer as your avatar?
ah yeah, it's only an actor in a role...

[Ned]

Originally posted by Saint Marcus





And yeah, this is once again a **** up by the US. What else is new? We can all ***** about it till we drop, it won't make the US military any more competent.

And the US doesn't have to worry about the ICC. After all, I don't think they'll put mentally challenged servicemen on trial.

It's sad that people so stupid are allowed to use such powerful weapons.


The worst is, that this isn't the first time a wedding was bombed.

From Time:

It was a wedding party on a late December night. But from the air it looked to the pilots like what their intelligence source had claimed: a gathering of Al Qaeda terrorists. Dozens of cars had converged on Qila-Niazi, a hamlet of 12 mud-walled homes in the shadow of a snowy ridge 80 miles southeast of Kabul. The women were gossiping and painting their hands with red henna. The men were in another room playing cards and dancing. Music drowned out the sounds of the US warplanes overhead. At 10:30 pm, the first bombs struck the party; the assault lasted 6 hours.

Out of 112 people, two women had survived.

Very sad.

For once I have to agree with you Saint Marcus. This seems to be the second time this has happened. After the first screw-up, sufficient safeguards should have been put in place to prevent a second occurance. But it apparently happened again.

After an investigation, if it does turn out that innocent Afghani's were hit, Bush should replace the commander responsible - probably Franks.

[Arrian]

Compensation and an apology is in order as well.

As for St. Marcus being right...

And the US doesn't have to worry about the ICC. After all, I don't think they'll put mentally challenged servicemen on trial.

It's sad that people so stupid are allowed to use such powerful weapons.

No, he's just a nasty little troll.

-Arrian