November 28, 2005
You may by now have seen yesterdays Telegraph story
about a video filmed through the rear window of a private security
company car in Iraq. It shows some random looking shooting with
automatic weapons on cars coming up from behind. People seem to get
hurt.
You can watch that video here and here, but there is another one and it is worse.
The Telegraph story lead me to a blog named The Red Zone about "Real life on the mean streets of Iraq". The current Red Zone post is about a very disturbing video made by US military in Iraq. It is hosted on flurl and here.
This video shows how US soldiers in Iraq, with the help of a robot,
blow up a standing car that appears to have had an accident, while a
young man, well alive but probably trapped, is still sitting in that
car.
The trailer of the September 14 video names the National Guard 319th Ord Co (EOD) as author.
First we see Humvees and an M1 tank and a few hundred yards away a red
car standing in the middle of the road. A tracked, radio controlled
robot with video equipment is send to the lone standing car. The
operators video screen shows the take from the robot's camera.
The red car looks like it had a very serious front crash - the hood
is tilted upward, the engine compartment is smashed, the driver
door is open. I do not have the impression that there had been an
explosion at this point.
The robot's camera shows a young man in working trousers and a
white undershirt in the red car's driver seat. He is alive and does not
appear to be injured but is distressed - putting his head into his
hands. He seems not to be able to move away. His right foot might be
trapped with the pedals.
The robot drives around the car and comes back to the Humvees. A
demolition charge is shown and through a helicopter camera we now see
how the robot drags this to the red car.
The demolition charge, the red car and the young panicked man are blown
up. There is NO secondary explosion. The next pictures show him falling
from the side of the car. He is dead.
Now a still picture of what may be a self made bomb is shown, but it
does not appear to be at the same scene. Another short last cut is of
an explosion somewhere in an open field.
What has happened?
Was this a suicide bomber who failed to explode his load and had to be taken out?
Or was this some unlucky innocent guy who somehow had an accident,
was trapped in his car and blown up by the US military because they
feared him to be a bomber?
What is your take?
The music on the quite professional video is AFI's, The Leaving Song Pt 2:
I saw its birth
i watched it grow
I felt it change me.
i took the life
I ate it slow
Now it consumes me
Posted by Bernhard on November 28, 2005 at 07:09 AM | Permalink
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