*FACEPALM* Idiots!

[docwebster]

U.S. forces shoot just-freed Italian hostage, kill guard

Who the fuck is running that show over there, the Three Stooges?

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[oceansedge.livejournal.com]

I will note - just in the interest of clarification and fair reporting - that that quote is the Pentagon's official statement on the incident - I would NOT be surprised to learn there is more to the story than that.

Question A) Did the checkpoint personnel identify themselves as coalition forces? If I were a hostage neogitator trying to get a freed hostage out of the country - I'd be worried about folks with guns blocking the road too - and if they started firing shots - I'd make a run on the blockade too.

I'm not saying that's necessarily the way it happened - I'm saying there is a lot more ways of interpeting this incident than one - and we by no means have the whole story yet.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

We're the ones in uniforms, with HUMMWVs and M-16s. At this point the insurgents don't really do checkpoints anymore - too dangerous. Burying IEDs along convoy routes and finding suckers for martyr duty is easier.

The driver was a moron. When the people wearing American flags on their shoulders wave for you to stop, you stop. One way or the other.