Friendly fire at Nasiriya? Video. Was on Aaron Brown tonight.

[madfloridian]

Interviewed some very angry military. Sounds like a plane attacked them, one of ours. I had heard speculation, but these are really angry guys. One said if he could get hold of the pilot of that plane.......
They said the plane had to have known they were American, but it just kept on firing.

http://www.cnn.com/video/
3rd video

[this_side_up]

1. How horrible

In view of the previous friendly fire incidents and the
so-called precautions they are supposed to take to
prevent this, I wonder if this pilot cracked up?

Does anyone know, is the Air Force still there or
is this Army pilots and planes?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. This incident happened during the first rescue attempt

by US Troops of Jessica Lynch and the other POW's. Seems things went very wrong in the process. I believe, this is the real untold story behind what really happened to Lynch.


http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030329-friendlyfire01.htm

Friendly Fire May Have Killed Lejeune Marines

Nine N.C.-based Marines killed Sunday in the battle for Nasiriyah may have been victims of friendly fire, not Iraqis pretending to surrender as originally believed.

<snip>

Officials at the U.S. Central Command in Qatar would say only that friendly fire is an unfortunate reality of war and that they're still looking into the deaths of the nine Marines based at Camp Lejeune in Eastern North Carolina.

On Sunday, Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid said the Marines were killed during heavy fighting inside the city after a small group of Iraqi solders indicated they wanted to give themselves up. They then fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Marines' amphibious assault vehicle, according to what witnesses told journalists with the unit.

But a military source told The Washington Post that early indications suggest the nine may have been hit by an A-10 Thunderbolt II plane providing air support, whose pilot mistook them for Iraqi fighters.

[madfloridian]

3. I wondered about that. They did not make that connection.

I wonder if they did NOT mention it on purpose, so people would not fully realize that is what it was. The anger in the young men interviewed was so awful, though contained.

This is the first I have seen of this coming out.

[madfloridian]

4. Video is further down the page now.

It is under video channels, world.