To: PartyTime who wrote (526025 ) 1/18/2004 5:21:43 PM From: PROLIFE Respond to Look a little closer. Two men started running over to what was some sort of vehicle....one turned back, one continued. There was another man climbing out of the vehicle, and he is the one to get hit first, then the one crouching down beside it, then the one under the bigger truck, that was the first one to turn back. The video opens with the helicopter tracking a man in a pickup truck north of Baghdad on Dec. 1, one day after the 4th Infantry Division engaged in the bloodiest battles with Iraqi insurgents since the end of major combat. ."I got a guy running throwing a weapon," one of the pilots says. Retired Gen. Jack Keane, an ABCNEWS consultant who viewed the tape, said the object looked like a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, "or something larger than a rifle." the Apache pilots would have had a much clearer picture of the scene than what was recorded on the videotape. He also said they would have had intelligence about the identity of the men in the vehicles. "They're not getting a sort of blurred picture. They have a combination of intelligence and much better imagery than we can see." you have to act immediately. If you wait to send in ground troops almost invariably your enemy is going to be gone." airforce-tchnology.com
