Iraqis say they shot guy in helicopter as revenge for the mosque killings

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBGEW2MT7E.html

Six American Bodyguards Killed as Helicopter in Iraq Shot Down by Missiles; Insurgent Video Purports to Show Killing of One Survivor

<snip>The Islamic Army statement said it killed the survivor "in revenge for the Muslims who have been killed in cold blood in the mosques of tireless Fallujah before the eyes of the world and on television screens, without anyone condemning them." It was apparently referring to the shooting by an American soldier of a wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque on Nov. 13 during a U.S. offensive in the city.

In the video, militants come across the injured man in the flight suit. "Stand up! Stand up!" an insurgent orders the man, who reaches out and says "Give me a hand."

Then, apparently referring to a fractured leg, he says "It's broken."

The militants - unseen except in brief glances - tell him to stand up. "Weapons? Weapons?" the gunmen ask him in Arabic as he stands uneasily.

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[bpilgrim]

1. that was cold blooded

yeah, i know war is hell... shoot they're lucky the neoCONs ain't launched any nukes, yet.


http://images.globalfreepress.com

peace

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. I'm reminded of Brando's soliloquy in Apocalypse Now

I've seen horrors...horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that...But you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces...Seems a thousand centuries ago...We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see... We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile...A pile of little arms. And I remember...I...I...I cried... I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought: My God...the genius of that. The genius. The will. To do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters...These were men...trained cadres...these men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love...but they had the strength...the strength...to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral...and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion... without judgement...without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us.

[tinonedown]

3. I call BS

They were going to kill him anyway.
Some people will buy it.
Some people will buy anything.

[bpilgrim]

4. gotta link?

:p

peace

[NNN0LHI]

5. Here bpilgrim. I will supply a link for the poster

http://www.mysticalball.com/