i was reluctant to even post here but since it is still up i will.
why on earth did these journalist's not wave there bags or give some kind of signal? it was obvious that the helicopters where looking at them, the guy sticking his head around the corner was very aware of the danger or he would have just walked out into the open! it would seem to me that anyone on the ground who is aware of what these helicopters will do to you would want to either signal them that they were friendly or disperse, the fact that there were positively two armed men in that group would have been enough to warrant my exit at a high rate of speed, or for me to lay down on the ground face down hands out till they recognized my lack of desire to get killed!! not one of these guys even remotely appeared to be threatened by the heli's, and at, at least one point they did aim something that looked like an RPG at the chopper!
the people in the van did no better, they were being circled at an even closer radius yet they never even attempted to communicate with the heli's, they planed on loading the person in the van as if they knew him, they hid him from view, and immediately tried to leave before they were fired upon, why on earth they had the kids in the van is unknown but to do what they did would be like pulling up to a gangland shootout with police, and loading up some bad guys and trying to drive off, the cops would shoot you as you did so just as these guys did.
it was a very unfortunate accident, the fact that there was a firefight not very far from it, made it much worse, suspicions were high and these people acted suspicious, maybe not on purpose, but they did none the less!
as soon as the guy poked his head around the corner, with what looked like an RPG the deal was done, up until that time, there could have been a different outcome, stupidity by the guys who got killed is the reason this happened, better communication with the public could have prevented it, such as what to do if a couple of helicopters with guns starts circling you!
the other side of this is the fact that none of the films talks about the weapons that were on the scene, if they did have an RPG and an AK47 then they were a threat, if no weapons were found, then what is it that these two guys had? and why isn't anyone talking about that?