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Aubrey Soper thinks it is right and proper for helicopter gunships to beat up on Iraqi farmers, Wednesday, October 27, 2004

All Iraqis are fair game (2)

[Previous letter from Mr Soper]

HAVE a listen and look at the video clips available on the link below. Very different story from the excerpt you posted, unless you want to contend that farmers in Iraq plant RPGs [rocket propelled grenades] . . . at night. I am very disappointed in you.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/apache.asp#photo

Aubrey Soper

[Website note: The page linked quotes ABC News as stating that the men on the ground were fired upon (north of Baghdad, Dec 1, 2003) because the helicopter crew "believed them to be armed" with a RPG launcher. Mr Soper's letter does not really add much to the controversy.]

Controversy New analysis of the graphic US army gun-camera video of Apache helicopter massacring Iraqi farmers  |  Mpeg Video | our original posting | theirs, Jan 9, 2004 | Robert Fisk