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I watched this video from end to end. It is entirely possible that this was a team setting up an ambush and filming it. The fact that a Reuters photojourno wa
by sunchild 17y ago
I watched this video from end to end. It is entirely possible that this was a team setting up an ambush and filming it.
The fact that a Reuters photojourno was involved only fortifies the plausibility of this theory, since wire photojournos are well-known for "embedding" with insurgents.
I'm not saying one way or the other (unlike many others). I'm proposing an alternative theory that I believe is just as likely as the "collateral murder" storyline.
- nl 17y agoIt's a good theory. Unfortunately no other weapons (apart from a single AK-47 - which was commonly carried in 2007 Baghdad) or bombs were found, so I can just as easily say that they might have been aliens from Xenu. I do think that there are more extenuating circumstances than some may think (it was 2007 in Baghdad - people forget how bad things were there). But claims that those people were anything other than a random group of people will require some evidence.
- prawn 17y agoTo me, it didn't seem like the other guys were moving with purpose, just out wandering around. One seems to gesture to a street that the photographer should look at. The chopper guys talk about 5-6 guys having AK-47s but there are only two who appear to be carrying anything at all. The rest don't have bags or anything.