Reply #126: Except there actually was at least 1 armed person there

[jeff47]

There was at least 1 person with an actual AK-47...they even point it out in the video.

The problem is lots of equipment can be mistaken for weapons if you are expecting to see weapons. And so these soldiers did.

Now that we know they were cameras, we can't help but see cameras for the same reason - we're expecting cameras.

My original point here is that this kind of thing will happen in any war. Always. It might not specifically be Apaches shooting journalists, but there will be incidents where friendlies or innocents are mistaken for enemies and killed. And that is one of the many reasons to avoid going to war in the first place, a decision these soldiers did not make.