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Video: Friendly fire attack in Iraq
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Helmet-cam video from Ramadi, Iraq, where Pfc. Albert Nelson was allegedly killed by an American tank, and an interview with the soldier’s mother.
Salon
October 15, 2008
Editor’s note: Mark Benjamin’s friendly fire investigation contains 1) the main article, 2) video documentation and 3) the Army’s own report on the killing of Nelson and Suarez.
On the afternoon of Dec. 4, 2006, Pfc. Albert Nelson was wounded and Pfc. Roger Suarez-Gonzalez was killed during an exchange of fire in “building #2″ close to the south bank of the Euphrates River in Ramadi, Anbar province, Iraq.
This video, which was recorded from the point of view of the men in building #2 that day, appears to show an American tank firing on them, followed by an attempt to assign official blame for the death of Suarez and the injuries to Nelson to Iraqi insurgents firing mortars. Nelson later died of his wounds.
The video comes from a camera mounted on the helmet of Sgt. 1st Class Jack Robison, who donned it to record a firefight in progress.
The footage begins with Robison in a courtyard attached to building #2. The original video was 52 minutes and 38 seconds long; Salon has abridged it to show the alleged friendly fire incident and its aftermath, including exchanges between Robison and a commanding officer as to whether or not a U.S. tank fired on the building, and the comments of other soldiers in the house who say they saw the tank fire at their position.
The video shows Pfc. Nelson receiving medical attention for his left leg, which was severed in the blast. At the request of Nelson’s family, we have blurred his image throughout. It includes graphic violence and profanity.
The video can be viewed in its entirety (above), albeit with Nelson’s image obscured.
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October 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
very sad, we must as a nation take care of our Veterans.
October 16th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
That fake is just stupid. I´m thinking it´s to fake to be here on infowars, no credability… Brazil is going threw elections now too and with that the army was deploed to the shany towns to secure a safe vote without influence of the narco trafic and liderships there.
Btw whats going with the amero?
October 16th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
You must as a nation take control of the people that control the nation. We are the majority and bieng treated like **** and we say its a democracy when we openly have two main people on the spot light in the elections. I smell froud in the coming elections and the veterans with suffer more and there will be many more of them.