[VOA]

Maybe it is not a good idea to be associate with people that can
get hit with a hellfire missile fired from a drone at anytime?

I don't know what sort of public warning the US Military gave
to non-combatants about the precision of killing.
Maybe the Afghanis and Iraqis saw the precision bombing of the
US forces and presumed they could safely stand next to the bad boys.
And only the bad boys would be hit/killed when US aircraft appeared.

As far as I'm concerned, the main message to Afghanis/Iraqis
should have known is it's dangerous to stand within maybe a couple
of football fields of the bad guys (roughly the lethal blast radius
of the average bombs dropped by US aircraft?).

I suspect some of the the griping (fair or not) in Afghanistan
is from not being able to repel the US forces like they did the
Soviet forces. And a long line of foreign forces that proceeded them.
Bitchin' and whinin' and propaganda about "American atrocities" are
just about the only real weapons left to them.

[weegee]

The articles tracked with the keywords mediawar and fauxtography have done a lot of damage to their agitprop campaign.

The boy who cries wolf 1,000 times will have a hard time claiming victim status if/when there is a genuine attrocity.

“Maybe the Afghanis and Iraqis saw the precision bombing of the US forces and presumed they could safely stand next to the bad boys.”

More likely they don’t even see the Taliban and AQ in their midst as “bad boys”.