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Originally Posted by Lungfish
Oh nevermind, I guess there was an internal investigation and we didn't do anything wrong. I skimmed past that in the second article. Still, I don't see any accounts that suggest that they were in the middle of a firefight... sounds like there was an exchange of gunfire, and the minibus stopped to pick up wounded, and was then fired on as it was leaving.
But I suppose we shouldn't jump to any conclusions - until we know just how wounded these Iraqis look, and if the wounded were the same ones exchanging fire, it sounds like acceptable losses to me
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It would be virtually impossible for soldiers to know that a "minibus" is there for humanitarian purposes rather than to spirit away enemy fighters. This is why the red cross symbol has been adopted for ambulances, etc., to safeguard them from attack. If this was truly a civilian trying to get wounded people to a hospital for no other reason than humanitarian this is a tragedy -- not infrequent in war, unfortunately.