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A comment on Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 07/12/07. Parent comment

Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by sliverstorm on Monday April 05, 2010 @01:33PM (#1242460)
The pilot was operating on the assumption that the people he fired upon were militants. Think about it; you shoot at armed militants. Minutes later an unmarked van with some unmarked men pulls up, and they jump out and start loading the wounded. Does the van hold civilians? Y/N.
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Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by philwelch on Monday April 05, 2010 @03:22PM (#1242804)
According to the relevant parts of international law, it doesn't matter if they're uniformed military--if they're unarmed and loading wounded into a vehicle for medevac, you let them go.
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Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by sliverstorm on Monday April 05, 2010 @09:53PM (#1243621)
My point is not that the killing was just. I was just objecting to where the parent suggests the pilot opened fire on civilians knowingly.
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Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by philwelch on Monday April 05, 2010 @10:08PM (#1243644)
You're correct in that, but civilian or not is a technicality, not the issue.
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Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by gort on Monday April 05, 2010 @01:41PM (#1242491)
Some unarmed unmarked men.

You must assume Y. You can't just start shooting on the balance of probabilities. It might be forgivable if there was some imminent danger to... somebody. But I'm not seeing that.

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Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by Jeema3000 on Monday April 05, 2010 @03:01PM (#1242734)
Doesn't matter. You aren't allowed to shoot wounded combatants who are out of the action.
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Re:Wikileaks gun camera video of civilians shot in Baghdad 0... by patrickk on Monday April 05, 2010 @09:26PM (#1243555)
There was a little girl in the van. I guess shes an insurgent too
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