Hard to have sympathy for ’em when they have [leaked videos](https://youtu.be/xm6hC2oW5P8) with heavy metal shooting at and running down/over random civilians.
Date?
Maybe don’t invade other countries
Parkinson camera men
Just a heads up. This goes from a helicopter shootdown video to a snuff film really quickly.
*BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 22, 2005 – The man in the dark blue flight suit lay face-up in the tall scrub grass looking up nervously at the video camera. Above him stood men with Kalashnikov rifles who had tracked him down to the only cover near where his helicopter had been shot down in the desert.*
*”Stand up! Stand up!” a voice in Arab-accented English said from off-camera. “I can’t. It’s broken,” the man in the flight suit answered, also in English, with a soft Eastern European accent. The man, in his 40’s, with graying hair, raised his head slightly as he spoke and motioned to his right leg. “Give me a hand,” he said. “Come here, come here,” the off-camera insurgent said, reaching out a hand to pull him up.*
*At 2 p.m. Thursday, a Bulgarian-owned Mi-8 transport helicopter was shot down near the town of Taji, 12 miles northwest of Baghdad, with 11 men aboard. There were three Bulgarian crew members; six Americans working for the security company Blackwater USA, under contract to the United States Diplomatic Security Service; and two Fijian former soldiers employed as door-gunners.*…
*When the video surveyed the helicopter wreckage, showing two charred bodies, one with a pistol holster strapped to his thigh, one of the insurgents could be heard saying in Arabic, referring to the bodies, “Look at this filth,” and “God is great!” He quickly added, “See if there are any Americans left.”*
*About 300 yards away, across the stony desert, a stretch of tall grass was visible. It was there the attackers found the pilot.*
*”Silah? Silah?” — “Any weapons?” — the insurgent asked after hauling the pilot to his feet. Mr. Kostov, seeming not to understand Arabic, gave no answer. “Go! Go!” the insurgent said in English.*
*As the pilot hobbled forward, the insurgent intoned what amounted to a death sentence. “Carry out God’s judgment,” he said, just as the pilot turned around, raising his right hand in a protective gesture. Eighteen shots followed, with Mr. Kostov falling backward into the grass, dust plumes around him as the bullets struck.*
oh no could not have happend to a nicer group of guys. killing prisoners/wounded is wrong but fuck these guys in particular.
FYI- blackwater are pieces of shits all over iraq and everywhere they have “deployed”, they need to have a rebrand every few years due how scummy and warcrime commiting peices of shites they are.
Welp after seeing that im less surprised about how Blackwater went apeshit in Iraq
Go listen some Shawn Ryan podcasts about Blackwater. Eric Prince has been a guest… dont believe the MSM fairytale story about Blackwater/XE
Yeah fuck black water.
They set back Middle East western relations by several 100s of years.
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Calling “god is great” and doing that… Radical Islam is a mind virus.
Blackwater were mercanies but also some real pieces of shit. Seeing their bodies paraded and beaten, strung up with broken limbs serves them right. Blackwater was filmed Killing innocent people. Running over them in cars. Laughing and firing M-249s into crowded streets. Yeah, this isn’t what you’d call humane. And so they deserve the treatment they dished out.
Whats with the vitriol towards the Bulgarian pilot who was shot? Not blackwater, the operator of the helicopter. Some of yall need to take a walk and get some fresh air.
Ogrish.com? feeling old.
I was actually contacted by them in 2006 to come work as a flight paramedic for their poppy eradication projects, but didn’t even go for the interview or submit any application. I hemmed and hawed and wondered if I missed out on a nice few paychecks. I stopped the hemming and hawing
Shoot the cameraman.
r/killthecameraman
Filthy animals
This subreddit sucks these days
Going to war in a blue polo. 😛
Blackwater absolute scum bags
What goes around comes around
At least they didn’t shoot him while he was down lol
Eric prince should be in the fucking Hague
All of these excuses for the execution…. Y’all are fucking weak. There are protections for people in this position. Unfortunately, these countries do not play by the Geneva Convention’s ROE… but everyone expects the US and its allies to follow them. Hypocrisy at its worst.
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Hard to have sympathy for ’em when they have [leaked videos](https://youtu.be/xm6hC2oW5P8) with heavy metal shooting at and running down/over random civilians.
Date?
Maybe don’t invade other countries
Parkinson camera men
Just a heads up. This goes from a helicopter shootdown video to a snuff film really quickly.
Here’s the story from the NY Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/world/middleeast/video-appears-to-show-insurgents-kill-a-downed-pilot.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/23/world/middleeast/video-appears-to-show-insurgents-kill-a-downed-pilot.html)
*BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 22, 2005 – The man in the dark blue flight suit lay face-up in the tall scrub grass looking up nervously at the video camera. Above him stood men with Kalashnikov rifles who had tracked him down to the only cover near where his helicopter had been shot down in the desert.*
*”Stand up! Stand up!” a voice in Arab-accented English said from off-camera. “I can’t. It’s broken,” the man in the flight suit answered, also in English, with a soft Eastern European accent. The man, in his 40’s, with graying hair, raised his head slightly as he spoke and motioned to his right leg. “Give me a hand,” he said. “Come here, come here,” the off-camera insurgent said, reaching out a hand to pull him up.*
*At 2 p.m. Thursday, a Bulgarian-owned Mi-8 transport helicopter was shot down near the town of Taji, 12 miles northwest of Baghdad, with 11 men aboard. There were three Bulgarian crew members; six Americans working for the security company Blackwater USA, under contract to the United States Diplomatic Security Service; and two Fijian former soldiers employed as door-gunners.*…
*When the video surveyed the helicopter wreckage, showing two charred bodies, one with a pistol holster strapped to his thigh, one of the insurgents could be heard saying in Arabic, referring to the bodies, “Look at this filth,” and “God is great!” He quickly added, “See if there are any Americans left.”*
*About 300 yards away, across the stony desert, a stretch of tall grass was visible. It was there the attackers found the pilot.*
*”Silah? Silah?” — “Any weapons?” — the insurgent asked after hauling the pilot to his feet. Mr. Kostov, seeming not to understand Arabic, gave no answer. “Go! Go!” the insurgent said in English.*
*As the pilot hobbled forward, the insurgent intoned what amounted to a death sentence. “Carry out God’s judgment,” he said, just as the pilot turned around, raising his right hand in a protective gesture. Eighteen shots followed, with Mr. Kostov falling backward into the grass, dust plumes around him as the bullets struck.*
oh no could not have happend to a nicer group of guys. killing prisoners/wounded is wrong but fuck these guys in particular.
FYI- blackwater are pieces of shits all over iraq and everywhere they have “deployed”, they need to have a rebrand every few years due how scummy and warcrime commiting peices of shites they are.
Welp after seeing that im less surprised about how Blackwater went apeshit in Iraq
Go listen some Shawn Ryan podcasts about Blackwater. Eric Prince has been a guest… dont believe the MSM fairytale story about Blackwater/XE
Yeah fuck black water.
They set back Middle East western relations by several 100s of years.
[ Removed by Reddit ]
Calling “god is great” and doing that… Radical Islam is a mind virus.
Blackwater were mercanies but also some real pieces of shit. Seeing their bodies paraded and beaten, strung up with broken limbs serves them right. Blackwater was filmed Killing innocent people. Running over them in cars. Laughing and firing M-249s into crowded streets. Yeah, this isn’t what you’d call humane. And so they deserve the treatment they dished out.
Whats with the vitriol towards the Bulgarian pilot who was shot? Not blackwater, the operator of the helicopter. Some of yall need to take a walk and get some fresh air.
Ogrish.com? feeling old.
I was actually contacted by them in 2006 to come work as a flight paramedic for their poppy eradication projects, but didn’t even go for the interview or submit any application. I hemmed and hawed and wondered if I missed out on a nice few paychecks. I stopped the hemming and hawing
Shoot the cameraman.
r/killthecameraman
Filthy animals
This subreddit sucks these days
Going to war in a blue polo. 😛
Blackwater absolute scum bags
What goes around comes around
At least they didn’t shoot him while he was down lol
Eric prince should be in the fucking Hague
All of these excuses for the execution…. Y’all are fucking weak. There are protections for people in this position. Unfortunately, these countries do not play by the Geneva Convention’s ROE… but everyone expects the US and its allies to follow them. Hypocrisy at its worst.