Ouch... There's going to be some nastiness as a result of this debacle.... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/06/nmatty406.xml
Probably not. It was a terrible mistake and the case in the US has already been closed. There is no cover up, despite what the UK press would like to believe.
LOL Wake up. The family of the soldier who was killed, as well as the British government, were specifically informed by the US government that there was no recordings of the event in question.
I am wide awake. I have been listening to the BBC coverage of this event all day, and have not heard anyone who claims that this is a cover up of any sort, or that it will damage US-UK relations in any manner. If the recordings were classified (which they were), then there is no reason for the government to ever acknowlege their existence. I fail to see how this constitutes a cover up. I think this is the British press trying to stir up trouble to sell more papers. If you actually listen to the recording, you will hear the dispatcher tell the pilots that there are no friendlies in the area, and the pilots identify the British convoy as enemy missile launchers.
?? That's the definition of a cover up. But poorly done. As in, at first they denied, and now the footage has surfaced. As I've pointed out elsewhere. The fault lies not with the pilots, but with the ground intelligence they received.
Inasmuch as "classified" = "covered up". This is like saying that the government has "covered up" new military technology.
If something is classified, then the official position is that it doesn't exist. This is not a coverup, it is (was) a military investigation into a friendly fire incident that has been closed by the US government.
Friendly-fire incidents happen in every war. If all you young studs actually enlisted in the armed forces you could certainly show the rest of us how not to do it right. Oh, man. That is so right on so many levels. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
lol And the US government is somehow the arbiter of reality? Regardless of any 'official position', if something exists, it does. As has been proved.
This happened almost 4 years ago. It was not classified for any military reason, but to prevent the embarrasment of the president. Shameful.
Didn't a similar thing happen with Pat Tillman? It was a friendly fire incident, and they tried to make him a hero.
