” Now wait - I seem to recall in a story a short while back, that on of the big questions in this case was if “baiting” possible insurgents in using various items they would be looking for (article specifically mentioned detonation wire). “
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902905/posts
Moments earlier, the man, according to testimony and court documents, had been fleeing an attack on U.S. soldiers and was holding the sickle to masquerade as a farmer
Thus the man was an insurgent, a valid target within anyone's ROE. That the sniper team felt the need to guild the lily says volumes about the effect of earlier prosecutions on our troops.
Not to mention the effect of having mere accusations of wrong doing trumpeted in the halls of Congress *and* in reelection campaign headquarters and elsewhere, including the Sunday morning TV talk shows, by the likes of Murtha, Kerry and Kennedy.