This makes those “embeds” fair game as they participated in the killing our our troops.
Ok. I *think* you guys are jumping the gun. I’ll wait to watch the video. It looks like these guys were embedded with the unit and have video of an attack. I dont see that it says this camera crew had word of an attack and filmed the soldiers getting ambushed from a safe location. Sebastian Junger (author of the book “the perfect storm”) was part of the film crew. I think this could be really an interesting story. I say this too as somebody who dislikes the media, and I am in the National Guard and looking at gettig deployed late next year.
HOW?
They were embeds - that means they were in the middle of Battle Company right alongside the troops, the same as if they were serving members...they had no heads up intel - they were caught in the ambush, fired upon and in the same danger - They weren't independent observers standing on some other hillside or over paling around with the barbarians -
I am at a total loss at the morass of ignorant posts and attacks on the reporters...who had a lot of guts to put themselves in that situation...embeds are far more likely to tell it straight as they get a real-time fast education and appreciation of what our troops go through
This wasn't a piece done after the fact and then spun - as we are used to - but a report done in real time as it happened...and I can tell you, it did happen this way...no spin