Gunship video footage
Henk | 03.03.2003 01:30
Re-post from SA Indy -
Frightening insight into the violent and insane minds used by the US military indusrial complex.
Frightening insight into the violent and insane minds used by the US military indusrial complex.
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2003/02/3189.php GUN CAMERA FOOTAGE ; U.S. 'KILLING FIELDS' - AFGHANISTAN
by Foreign Press Foundation - Holland • Wednesday February 26, 2003 at 01:04 AM
The Netherlands
Defenitely this way of murdering human beings in a kind of "turkey- shooting", is absolutely NOT "fighting terrorism", but breeding it !
GUN CAMERA FOOTAGE ; U.S. 'KILLING FIELDS' - AFGHANISTAN
Dear Madam, Sir or colleague,
While covering a couple of wars in my 40 years as a foreign correspondent, I often wondered : Do the people I work for really want to know, see and hear reality ? How the world also is "pacified" by the Armed Forces of the United States, some 'fellow-travellers and it's few bullied and bribed "Allies" ?
The FPF reluctantly offers a revolting little piece of "Gun camera"-footage from US pilots in Afghanistan, which also is used as an instruction film. Defenitely this way of murdering human beings in a kind of "turkey- shooting", is absolutely NOT "fighting terrorism", but breeding it !
The US-Government and its few "Allies" are turning themselves and most of their friends into 'untouchables', the pariah's of the world !
There are two URL's and the file is 149 MB, so it may take a minute or two to download the file, of which the first also gives technical information :
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:3O8EHVY4WIkC:http://www.hk94.com/weblog/index.php%3Fp%3D62%26c%3D1+&hl=nl&start=1&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet The second URL for the US 'Killing Fields' reality :
http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/default.asp?target=AC_130Gunship.htm What you see is according to international law a war crime, but do judge for yourself pls. : there's NO fair trial; they are just killing human beings !
What would you do, if strangers are killing, and keep trying to kill, you and your family ? You see ? I know too, because as a correspondent - from Vietnam to the Gulf and M-East - I've seen some wars.
And as a Dutchman, I'm utterly ashamed about those Dutch governments supporting this 'Gunship-diplomacy' - which has turned to terrorism - on a global scale.
This is not Foreign Policy or 'Fighting Terrorism',
it's BREEDING it !
Henk Ruyssenaars*
The FPF makes it a point of distinguishing between the governments, about which we are often very critical, and the People of a country !
* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent journalist c.q. foreign correspondent, for many international printed and A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America, (Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North- and South Africa (Persona non Grata '76), and the Middle East. While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia for ten years, sometimes reporting for the BBC too. Because of journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata" five times by different governments in East and West.
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get some, get some
03.03.2003 19:59
towel heads can run, they can chuck down ignited magnesium to try and mess with the body heat targetting... but hell they sure cant hide from those napalm blasts.
lol
CNN confirms use of Napalm by Coalition Forces
12.03.2004 06:43
The URL of this article is:
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Excerpt from CNN Report
Protecting Iraq's oil supply From Martin Savidge CNN Saturday,
March 22, 2003 Posted: 1107 GMT ( 7:07 PM HKT)
"We were up moving into the attack positions with the ground forces as they were
preparing to head into southern Iraq. They met some resistance up there at the
Kuwaiti-Iraq border.
Well, that was quickly resolved. They called in Tomahawk
strikes and airstrikes that went on all night long.
There is a lookout there, a hill referred to as Safwan Hill, on the Iraqi side of the border.
It was filled with Iraqi intelligence gathering. From that vantage point, they could look
out over all of northern Kuwait.
It is now estimated the hill was hit so badly by missiles, artillery and by the Air Force,
that they shaved a couple of feet off it. And anything that was up there that was left
after all the explosions was then hit with napalm.
And that pretty much put an end to any Iraqi operations up on that hill.
Then this morning they airlifted in U.S. military forces that now hold that
vantage point.
So, all last night there was an intense artillery, air and missile bombardment
throughout the southern part of Iraq. And that is what paved the way for the
ground forces to begin
pushing in."
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Go to original CNN article at
'See also the Report in the Sydney Herald:
Dead bodies are everywhere' March 22 2003 Herald Correspondent Lindsay Murdoch
Quote: "Marine Cobra helicopter gunships firing Hellfire missiles swept in low from the south.
Then the marine howitzers, with a range of 30 kilometres, opened a sustained barrage over
the next eight hours.
They were supported by US Navy aircraft which dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives
and napalm, a US officer told the Herald.
Url:
Editor's Note: Napalm, used extensively by the US during the Vietnam war
is a prohibited weapon, in accordance with the Geneva convention.
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