“Take No Prisoners” (Updated) 0
This does not seem right (emphasis added).
The Apache helicopter pilots killed both Iraqi men after being advised by a US military lawyer that they could not surrender to an aircraft and therefore remained valid targets. A leading military law expert consulted by the Guardian has questioned this legal advice.
Follow the link. Read it all.
Aside:
No wonder the Pentagon wants to keep this stuff secret. Claiming that it endangers lives in the future is sophistry.
It endangers careers in the now.
Addendum, Slightly Later:
The Guardian comments (emphasis added):
(snip)
But each extra piece of evidence builds a portrait of a military occupation deeply implicated in practices that were illegal under international law and unconscionable in the eyes of any reasonable observer.
The terrible truth about British and American involvement in Iraq seems increasingly to be that it was not just a strategic failure, it was, for the occupying powers, a moral catastrophe.
