Very good quality footage. However, I doubt any of the four chaps around the first vehicle eliminated or the others killed in the video would consider it "great" (even though they probably were terrorists/insurgents).

To quote Col Tim Collins, on the even of the 2003 invasion,

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Charlie wrote on Jan 10^th, 2007 at 10:54am:


Put into context, that's a far better way to go than to have your head drilled into or to have your head carved off, which seems to be a preferred way the terrorists deal with their captives.  Context is a word often overlooked when people criticise events over there.

Good intel, good shooting, and some fine flying there... watching this it's easy to forget this is a huge multi turboprop, not a helicopter... 

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 10^th, 2007 at 5:21pm:


Indeed, I could agree with you more there. I wasn't criticising events over there at all (if you knew my prefession, which a few forum members do, you would understand that I wouldn't), and this video is a very good example of a military team doing there job exactly as trained. I was merely questioning whether one really would want to label a video which clearly shows anyone's life being taken (whoever it is), as "great". They are all human.

For instance, Saddam Hussein. One of the most evil men the world has seen in recent history. He deserved his punishment, despite what some anti-capital punishment government (shame on certain members of the UK government for not respecting the Iraqi justice system and their freedom of choice to choose the punishment), yet I would not describe any video of his exectution as being "great".

dcunning30 wrote on Jan 11^th, 2007 at 2:41pm:


No worries!

I'm impressed by the professionalism the soldiers display.  Actually I've been watching a lot of Iraq conflict stuff on TV and am continually impressed by that same professionalism.  It's a morbid job and war is ugly, but there are heros out there...

Charlie wrote on Jan 12^th, 2007 at 8:20am:

There's a show that airs on the Discovery Military channel in the US called Iraq Diaries.  They follow a platoon of Marines during their daily lives in some of the high conflict areas of Iraq.  I think everyone should catch at least one episode of that show to see what our soldiers are really dealing with over there and the amazing skill and professionalism they display in such a foreboding environment, and the good stuff they do for the populace is in stark contrast to the images displayed by the mainstream media (granted I'm sure the footage shown is edited to be intentionally positive).  The Abu Grave stuff gets headlines, but really it's the day to day that deserves all that attention.