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**natahololll** · 05-04-2010, 11:07 PM

Well....

I played it a coupla of times without the audio, if I had to make a call what I was watching sans audio, I’d say they thought these guys on the street had intel on an ambush or something going down, were going to observe an ambush or IED explosion via ambush and were setting up for a camera shot. They wanted to take them out as sympathizers/collaborators etc.

That may be a bit more specific. Could possibly we'll been. But you know, not everyone in Iraq is making out to make an I.E.D attack. It just so happens, thats what we most likely hear most of the time.

That would sort of discredit the journalist. Don't want to speculate that this was a possible I.E.D planting, and the journalist knew ahead of time, and didn't notify the US Military.

Not everyone in Iraq is AQ. Alot are in sectarian milita's. This could have been one of those groups. Just so happens that the Journalist were associating with the wrong type of people at the wrong time. If anything, just as worse as AQ, or someone planting I.E.D, they would be militiamen fighting other militiamen. Either way they were armed.

I know journalist do it very often, often go where undesirable people are and mingle with them. However, you had to be aware of the strict US military involvement within Iraq and the current situation which is cause of alot of deaths during that period. Surely enough, you understood the risk of being in an open field, with a group of 8 men, some of which are armed, and from prying eyes from above would look like a large number, about a dozen or so, hostile people gathering. Like you said for who knows what reason, to plant I.E.D, or possibly observe, or in another case, attack another milita.

05-04-2010, 11:07 PM	#28
natahololll Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 667 Senior Member	Well.... I played it a coupla of times without the audio, if I had to make a call what I was watching sans audio, I’d say they thought these guys on the street had intel on an ambush or something going down, were going to observe an ambush or IED explosion via ambush and were setting up for a camera shot. They wanted to take them out as sympathizers/collaborators etc. That may be a bit more specific. Could possibly we'll been. But you know, not everyone in Iraq is making out to make an I.E.D attack. It just so happens, thats what we most likely hear most of the time. That would sort of discredit the journalist. Don't want to speculate that this was a possible I.E.D planting, and the journalist knew ahead of time, and didn't notify the US Military. Not everyone in Iraq is AQ. Alot are in sectarian milita's. This could have been one of those groups. Just so happens that the Journalist were associating with the wrong type of people at the wrong time. If anything, just as worse as AQ, or someone planting I.E.D, they would be militiamen fighting other militiamen. Either way they were armed. I know journalist do it very often, often go where undesirable people are and mingle with them. However, you had to be aware of the strict US military involvement within Iraq and the current situation which is cause of alot of deaths during that period. Surely enough, you understood the risk of being in an open field, with a group of 8 men, some of which are armed, and from prying eyes from above would look like a large number, about a dozen or so, hostile people gathering. Like you said for who knows what reason, to plant I.E.D, or possibly observe, or in another case, attack another milita.
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