The Mail On Sunday, most commonly known for its sometimes excessive right wing stance and often blind unquestioning support for the Armed Forces, seems to have taken a lesson in journalistic stirring from the Mirror.
Today it published an article entitled 'Shocking Evidence of American Brutality', linked to
here. This story in turn has a link to some sighting video from an AH-64
here . The video is probably not suitable for sensitive types.
You can draw your own conclusions from the video vs the story, but to me it smacks of gutter journalism - try to generate a 'sensational' story when there really isn't one there. Anyone who agrees with the copy or is shocked by the content of the video clearly has no concept of what warfare is about. I don't know what these people imagined was going on in Iraq in the early months of last year, but I would expect everyone to realise that in full-on war, people get shot. This is not brutality. This is a fact of war.
I am an SH pilot (who has been to Iraq and will again soon), not an IntO or apache type, but to me, the 'object' at 'left of arc' looks very much like an anti aircraft gun, with a hot barrel, behind a towing vehicle. A chappy is seen to climb out of what I would suggest is the gunner's seat before getting some hot lead. A legitimate target. The Mail is known for fairly crappy journalism but at least is normally on side. This whole story stinks and misleads the general public.
Rant over. Discuss.