With its long history of killing its allies and indeed its own forces, with ‘friendly fire’ I had always assumed that the American military was just massively incompetent. Now it appears that it may be actually criminal.
A coroner conducting an inquest into a U.S. friendly fire attack that killed a British soldier during the Iraq war said on Friday that it was unlawful and criminal.
“The attack on the convoy amounted to an assault," Walker said. "It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it, and in that respect it was criminal”.
Walker has called the lack of U.S. cooperation in the inquest "appalling."
Is it fair to label these brave ‘Top Guns’ as criminals just because they couldn’t tell the difference between their allies and the enemy, even though the trucks were painted day-glo orange, and there were no enemy troops in the area?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259081,00.html
2007-03-16
04:28:16
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