Author Topic: US Soldiers murder UK Reporter (Read 3145 times)

Yeager · « **on:** October 13, 2006, 01:27:33 PM »

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/13/lloyd.inquest/index.html

I figure the fog of war and all that, but I take the time to read the article anyway. Seems this poor UK news reporter was just doing his job covering a story about a war in progress when some iraqi insurgent shot him. So some other iraqi dude collects the shot up reporter (along with some other apparently wounded types) and throws him into an unmarked mini bus for a ride to the local hospital.

Of course the mini bus is converted into a giant pepper shaker by US soldiers and the wounded reporter is progressed into killed status.

But this line is the one that really had me rolling eyes:

"U.S. forces appeared to have allowed their soldiers to behave like trigger-happy cowboys in an area in which there were civilians traveling on a highway, both Iraqi and European."

What the hell is wrong with cowboys? I mean, cowboys rope cows and mend fences. They dont go to Iraq to kill innocent UK Reporters

at least not any cowboys that Im aware of.

Wheres Duvall? Anyone seen Eastwood lately?

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2006, 01:32:27 PM »

insurgents shot him first

Golfer · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2006, 01:41:47 PM »

Charging a man with murder in this place is like handing out speeding tickets in the indy 500.

They didn't murder anyone, Yeager. Even the article headline says that. If you were there, saw a van driving at a high rate of speed toward you...I hope you'd go out and politely try to stop it and see how it works out for ya.

Me...I'd be behind the sand bags with something fully automatic and a squad of buddies helping me.

Yeager · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2006, 01:49:46 PM »

I juss want to know why peeps are down on teh cowboys!

lukster · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2006, 02:09:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
I juss want to know why peeps are down on teh cowboys!

Did you watch last Sunday's game?

Masherbrum · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2006, 02:24:49 PM »

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Originally posted by lukster
Did you watch last Sunday's game?

I'm guessing he wasn't.

FiLtH · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2006, 03:24:29 PM »

If they were a proper army, they would have had a properly marked ambulance. Thats the breaks when you conduct geurilla warfare.

cav58d · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2006, 03:36:42 PM »

Innocent until proven guilty. PERIOD!

http://www.defendthedefenders.org/

1895 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2006, 04:25:52 PM »

See you can't murder someone at home for killing your brother. but you can go to war and kill him without being charged. Its stupid...

Grendel · « **Reply #9 on:** October 13, 2006, 04:47:45 PM »

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Originally posted by cav58d
Innocent until proven guilty. PERIOD!
http://www.defendthedefenders.org/

Bhahaha. Pitiful site. A murderer is a murderer. An invader is an invader.

Thrawn · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2006, 06:09:07 PM »

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Originally posted by RAIDER14
insurgents shot him first

Stangely though, if you go and shoot someone. Then someone else shoots them and thier bullet is the one that kills them, then they are the one charged with murder.

RedTop · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2006, 06:12:47 PM »

Location: Finland

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Originally posted by Grendel
Bhahaha. Pitiful site. A murderer is a murderer. An invader is an invader.

cav58d · « **Reply #12 on:** October 13, 2006, 06:16:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Grendel
Bhahaha. Pitiful site. A murderer is a murderer. An invader is an invader.

Im sorry, but here in the United States we give our soldiers the benefit of the doubt, but thats got to be pretty difficult to comprehend in Finland considering your past of siding with nazis

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2006, 06:37:11 PM »

Now if they could just figure out a way to get a bunch of American journalists into a bus

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2006, 07:02:09 PM »

Yeager, somehow I get the feeling that we are losing you to the darkside.

From all the information given to us, we only know that the guy was accidentally killed in a hostile war zone. The reporter wasn't put in an ambulance, but a mini-bus. Even so, I doubt the most crack sharpshooter in all of the world could hit someone inside a bus without really knowing where they were.

The politics here are reaching near bull**** levels. I'll quote a few things if you weren't already aware.

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Oxfordshire Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker said he'll be writing the director of public prosecutions to seek to bring the perpetrators to justice.

"Terry Lloyd died following a gunshot wound to the head. The evidence this bullet was fired by the Americans is overwhelming," Walker said.

The U.S. Department of Defense said its forces had followed proper rules of engagement.

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A statement read by an attorney for Lloyd's widow, Lynn, said the court established that the "circumstances of his death from an American bullet whilst being ferried to hospital is a very serious war crime" and that the Marines should now stand trial.

"The evidence of how Terry Lloyd was unlawfully killed has shown that this was not, I wish to stress, a friendly fire blue on blue incident or a crossfire incident. It was a despicable, deliberate, vengeful act, particularly as it came many minutes after the end of the initial exchanges in which Mr. Lloyd had been hit by an Iraqi bullet."

Oh I miss the days when you could blatantly slap someone back into reality.