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Apache gunship goes to work in Iraq. Warning: Graphic Video
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Posted on 01/09/2004 6:15:08 PM PST by Double Tap
Apparently this is a clip of a longer video of an Apache gunship engaging Iraqis.
Warning: This video is graphic!!!
http://www.lunitixx.com/sharefoo/224Helicopter_Kills.mpeg
I forget how to post a link, so if someone can do the honors, I would appreciate it.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bang; gunship
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WOW, that is...
To: Double Tap
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:15:44 PM PST
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To: Paleo Conservative
Thanks fellow Texan.
To: Double Tap
That "auto range" blows those trucks up real good.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:22:38 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
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To: Double Tap
abc had this on, someo are complaingin about killing the wounded thug. This clip does not show the bad guy clearly dumping a SAM launcher in the bushes.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:24:28 PM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: Double Tap
I finally got sound!
LOOOONG download!
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:25:13 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Davis is now out of Arnoold's Office , Bout Time!!!!)
To: Paleo Conservative
Yeah, it blowed everything up real good.
Apparently this is a clip of a longer video. ABCnews had the longer version and was questioning the "Rules of Engagement". I went to ABCnews.com but you have to be a member to view the videos, so I'm out of luck there. No way in hell I give ABC any money.
To: Paleo Conservative
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/US/apache_video_040109-1.html Videotape from the gun camera of a U.S. Apache helicopter shows two suspected Iraqi insurgents handling what the helicopter pilots believe is a weapon.
ABCNEWS.com
Rules of Engagement
Videotape Shows U.S. Helicopter Crew Firing on Suspected Iraqi Insurgents
By Martha Raddatz
ABCNEWS.com
Jan. 9 Graphic video footage from the gun camera of a U.S. Apache helicopter provides a window into the rules of engagement that often determine life and death in Iraq.
The video, obtained by ABCNEWS, shows grainy images of three Iraqis on the ground handling a long cylindrical object that the helicopter pilots believe is a weapon.
The pilots, from the Army's 4th Infantry Division, ask their commanders for permission to engage, then take the three men out one by one, using the Apache's devastating 30 mm cannons.
Nighttime Scene
The video opens with the helicopter tracking a man in a pickup truck north of Baghdad on Dec. 1, one day after the 4th Infantry Division engaged in the bloodiest battles with Iraqi insurgents since the end of major combat.
The pilots watch as the man pulls over and gets out to talk to another man waiting by a larger truck.
"Uh, big truck over here," one of the pilots is heard saying. "He's having a little powwow."
The pickup driver looks around, then reaches into his vehicle, takes out a tube-shaped object that appears to be about 4 or 5 feet long, and runs away from the road into a field. He drops the object in the field and heads back to the trucks.
"I got a guy running throwing a weapon," one of the pilots says. Retired Gen. Jack Keane, an ABCNEWS consultant who viewed the tape, said the object looked like a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, "or something larger than a rifle."
The pilots check in with their operational commander, who is monitoring the situation. When they tell him they are sure the man was carrying a weapon, he tells them: "Engage. Smoke him."
The pilots wait as a tractor arrives on the scene, near the spot where the pickup driver dropped the object. One of the Iraqis approaches the tractor driver.
Then, within minutes, the Apache pilots open fire with the heavy 30 mm cannon, killing first the Iraqi in the field, then the tractor driver. The pilots then fire at the large truck and wait to see if they hit the last of three men.
When he rolls out from under the truck, one of the pilots says, "He's wounded."
The other pilot says, "Hit him," and the Apache opens fire again, killing the man.
The Apache fires nearly 100 30 mm cannon rounds in all.
Engagement Called Justified
A senior Army official who viewed the tape said the pilots had the legal right to kill the men because they were carrying a weapon. He said there were no ground troops in the area and if the Apache pilots had let the three Iraqis go, the men might have gone on to kill American troops.
Keane agreed. "Those weapons were obviously not being pointed at them in particular, but they [the three Iraqis] are using those weapons in their minds for lethal means and they [the Apache pilots] have a right to interfere with that," he said.
Anthony Cordesman, an ABCNEWS defense consultant who also viewed the tape, said the Apache pilots would have had a much clearer picture of the scene than what was recorded on the videotape. He also said they would have had intelligence about the identity of the men in the vehicles. "They're not getting a sort of blurred picture. They have a combination of intelligence and much better imagery than we can see."
As to whether the Apache pilots could have called in ground troops to apprehend the men, Cordesman said: "In this kind of war, wherever you find organized resistance among the insurgents, you have to act immediately. If you wait to send in ground troops almost invariably your enemy is going to be gone."
Army officials acknowledged that the 30 mm cannons used by the Apache gunners were far bigger than what was needed to kill the men, but said it is the smallest weapon the Apaches have.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:27:12 PM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: finnman69
Yes Sir, you are correct. I couldn't find a source for the longer version.
To: Double Tap
Have to put this with AC 130 footage from Afghanistan.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:28:14 PM PST
by
dts32041
("Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed" RAH)
To: Double Tap
The gunships/Cobras were extremely good in Nam but these guys are awesome. I'd call in fire support from these guys anytime. Impressive.....the American soldier. Ya gotta be proud of them.
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those guys are having a really bad day
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:29:13 PM PST
by
ezo4
To: ezoeni
To: finnman69
Army officials acknowledged that the 30 mm cannons used by the Apache gunners were far bigger than what was needed to kill the men, but said it is the smallest weapon the Apaches have. When you care enough to send the best.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:33:44 PM PST
by
TC Rider
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To: finnman69; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; Ragtime Cowgirl; SierraWasp; Dog
I guess we will hear about this from the NY Times!
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:34:46 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Davis is now out of Arnoold's Office , Bout Time!!!!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The DUmmies think the crew should be propsecuted for war crimes.
Bleeding heart A-holes also think Sadddam was mistreated.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:39:56 PM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: Double Tap
Kewl, HE rounds.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:40:54 PM PST
by
TC Rider
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To: Double Tap
Army officials acknowledged that the 30 mm cannons used by the Apache gunners were far bigger than what was needed to kill the men, but said it is the smallest weapon the Apaches have. Wish we had more of THIS type of problem.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:41:37 PM PST
by
ibbryn
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To: finnman69
The guy at the tractor sure seemed to be unfurling a sheath from a long tubular weapon...hmmm, I wonder what it could have been? No I'd rather they check out the peices the next morning. Good work warriors.
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posted on
01/09/2004 6:42:04 PM PST
by
corkoman
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