These are quotes taken from the Huffington Post article on the video, which are directly taken from the video itself and you may verify: If you watch the part where Saaed was wounded and crawling, the Apache pilots told the ground troops arriving that they "will cease fire", "we won't shoot anymore". They circle around Saaed, saw that he had no weapons, and said to each other "come on buddy, all you have to do is pick up a weapon", referring to Saaed who looks like he is bleeding to death. When the van came to help, the pilots pressured the ground troop on radio to give permission to shoot ("come on, let us shoot!"). After the shooting, they laugh and congratulated each other: "right through the windshield, ha-ha!" (seriously, it's in the video.) Whether we agree or not that they committed a war crime, I don't think anyone who listens to their conversation should have the impression that these pilots are acting professionally, or that they were under threat- Maybe the first half, but the van part, they clearly were not under any kind of threat what so ever, especially when ground troops are about a block away.