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AIUI by some convention people in war are divided into combatants and noncombatants. To remain in the latter group you have to maintain a non-hostile position.
by throwaway_pdp09 7y ago
AIUI by some convention people in war are divided into combatants and noncombatants. To remain in the latter group you have to maintain a non-hostile position. By using a bomb (which sounds very weird for an experienced reporter to do) they'd be becoming combatants and so reasonable targets for the other side. If the NPR story covers this, I can't read it, blocked.
- Gracana 7y agoHe wasn't attacking, the grenade was thrown into his humvee and he picked it up and threw it out.
- jotm 7y agoI've not read the original article either, but the only conclusion I can come to from that short paragraph is that the sticky bomb was thrown into the car and the reporter threw it out to save his and his team's lives.
- rozab 7y agoAlthough you have completely misinterpreted the situation the article does touch on the issues you have raised. Perhaps if you adopted an attitude of engagement rather than reflexively blocking and avoiding things which you feel go against your worldview, you'd learn something.
- throwaway_pdp09 7y agoI should not have posted because I did not read the article. However I did not read it not from laziness but because it was blocked. No text = no read.
- rozab 7y agoAh I see, I thought you meant you blocked the poster which would be a very odd thing to see on HN! Apologies. Where are you that NPR is blocked? I'm in the UK, and even if I decline their data protection stuff they take me to a plaintext site. I suspect they do it to annoy people but I actually really love it