Haditha Revisited.

Manic Moran

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/

PBS has just put online last week's hour-long special on the investigations into the Haditha incident. It rather well shows the confusion over the whole situation, and how the truth really lies somewhere between the two extremes claimed. It streams in ten-minute chapters.

If you fancy a challenge, try the ROE quiz.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/etc/quiz.html

I got 17/19.

NTM

eroo

12/19

Conor108

13/19

Lockstep

13

Although I apparently left two blank.


Ah well, I was expecting to get a five and be told
"It's a good thing we don't have people like you in the army, hippie"

c-90

15/19 i thought you couldnt enter a mosque,shoot with out being fired upon or kill unarmed people running away from an ied, americans are really gung ho:eek:

Cato

13/19 alot of the anwers were shot first and answer questions later!:eek:

Manic Moran

15/19 i thought you couldnt enter a mosque,shoot with out being fired upon or kill unarmed people running away from an ied, americans are really gung ho

Why should a mosque offer protection? If you're sure the enemy's inside, by all means, go after them.

Waiting for the other guy to shoot first is not a recipe for survival: You're reliant on the other guy missing. There should be a reasonable threat, or a good indication that the target is enemy.

NTM

c-90

i dont agree with not shooting until fired upon, i thought that only people of that religion could enter a mosque and the iraqi armed forces could only enter one?

twinytwo

18/19... anyone watch the documentery... both sides are bull****ting to the extreme

Manic Moran

i thought that only people of that religion could enter a mosque and the iraqi armed forces could only enter one?

That's the preferred course of action, and if there's no 'hurry' in the matter (such as you're going to search it because intel says there's a weapons cache inside), then why risk annoying anyone?

However, if someone's shooting at you from it, they defiled the mosque, not you, and it loses its protected status. It's just like people using a hospital as a strongpoint: Are you forbidden from shooting at them because they've chosen to use a hospital to shoot at you from? Would you expect to be immune from pursuit/engagement because you ran into Christchurch Cathedral?

NTM

twinytwo

Manic Moran wrote: »

Why should a mosque offer protection? If you're sure the enemy's inside, by all means, go after them.

Waiting for the other guy to shoot first is not a recipe for survival: You're reliant on the other guy missing. There should be a reasonable threat, or a good indication that the target is enemy.

NTM

Churches/mosques etc offer no protection and people shouldnt be under the illusion that they do... how many times around the world have civillians run into places of worship only to be locked in and have the building burnt down

c-90

Manic Moran wrote: »

That's the preferred course of action, and if there's no 'hurry' in the matter (such as you're going to search it because intel says there's a weapons cache inside), then why risk annoying anyone?

However, if someone's shooting at you from it, they defiled the mosque, not you, and it loses its protected status. It's just like people using a hospital as a strongpoint: Are you forbidden from shooting at them because they've chosen to use a hospital to shoot at you from? Would you expect to be immune from pursuit/engagement because you ran into Christchurch Cathedral?

NTM

thanks for clearing that up, i totally agree with that corse of action

Victor

15/19 - It should explain where you went wrong.