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(I'm presuming you're talking about the widely circulated video of an Apache crew firing upon the Reuters? crew. Disregard my comment if you are not.) Yes it h

(I'm presuming you're talking about the widely circulated video of an Apache crew firing upon the Reuters? crew. Disregard my comment if you are not.) Yes it has nothing to do with a patrol taking fire from that area and confusion over a camera one of the journalists was carrying on his shoulder. I agree it absolutely shouldn't have happened but to gloss over these facts if you have watched the video is revisionist in my opinion. Also you failed to mention the real war crime which was firing at first responders some of who were children.

ahelwer 6y ago
People perpetually forget that the order to fire was issued before Namir peeked around the corner to take photos of the humvees. We can go on and on about what the real war crime was but for my money it's that this incident was not unusual. We talk about it a lot because some westerners cared about two people who were killed, but these things happened over and over and over and over and over. Maybe someone wants to go litigate those one by one. Or they can zoom out and see that this lax standard for killing people will inevitably lead to many of these incidents, and that going forward with the policy anyway is a war crime reminiscent of free-fire zones in Vietnam.
- Johnjonjoan 6y ago
  You literally said the only thought process that went towards the order to fire was that they were military age males. As I pointed out this was not the case and is still not the case irrespective of if he peeked the corner. I'm genuinely sorry Namir died and it shouldn't have happened but he knew that he was putting his life at risk let's be honest. On the other hand the passers by in the van who tried to take the wounded to the hospital who also were obliterated were just good Samaritans and I really think you should at least acknowledge them when talking about what happened to Namir as a war crime.

ahelwer 6y ago

People perpetually forget that the order to fire was issued before Namir peeked around the corner to take photos of the humvees. We can go on and on about what the real war crime was but for my money it's that this incident was not unusual. We talk about it a lot because some westerners cared about two people who were killed, but these things happened over and over and over and over and over. Maybe someone wants to go litigate those one by one. Or they can zoom out and see that this lax standard for killing people will inevitably lead to many of these incidents, and that going forward with the policy anyway is a war crime reminiscent of free-fire zones in Vietnam.

Johnjonjoan 6y ago
You literally said the only thought process that went towards the order to fire was that they were military age males. As I pointed out this was not the case and is still not the case irrespective of if he peeked the corner. I'm genuinely sorry Namir died and it shouldn't have happened but he knew that he was putting his life at risk let's be honest. On the other hand the passers by in the van who tried to take the wounded to the hospital who also were obliterated were just good Samaritans and I really think you should at least acknowledge them when talking about what happened to Namir as a war crime.