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Panorama - "In the Line of Fire"

Zombrex · 2003-11-09 23:15:05

Just watched the BBC Panorama program "In the Line of Fire" that documented the horrific friendly fire incident that report John Simpson and his crew found themselves in the middle of the Iraq war. Simpson and his crew were in Northern Iraq, on the Northern front at an road intersection with the Kurdish army and US Special…

09-11-2003 11:15pm

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Just watched the BBC Panorama program "In the Line of Fire" that documented the horrific friendly fire incident that report John Simpson and his crew found themselves in the middle of the Iraq war.

Simpson and his crew were in Northern Iraq, on the Northern front at an road intersection with the Kurdish army and US Special Forces. The US SF men called in an air assault on the Iraqi solders over some hills, but the US man calling in the raid made a terrible mistake and targetted himself, the Kurds and Simpson's crew. A "SMART" missile from a F-14 hit the centre of their group, destroying 3 cars, killing 16, including one of Simpson's crew, and wounding 45.

They had a camera filming the attack, along with a Kurdish army camera man. The Kurdish camera was trained on the men in the centre of the intersection milliseconds before the bomb hit. You can clearly see them all turn around and look up at the bomb an instant before they were all blow to pieces and the camera was knocked to the ground.

Simpson's camera man has his camera on as he desperately tries to find the other members. At one point blood drips from his face straight onto the camera.

Absolutely horrific, and sober watching for anyone who thinks the Iraq war was the hight of sophisticated warfare or that it was a "good thing". I don't want to start a debt on the morals of the war, but after seeing a dozen men get incinerated and the panic and devestation afterwards, no one could say that war was anything more than a necessary evil.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3216383.stm

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