Children cry after their parents were killed when U.S. soldiers with the 1st Battalion fired on their car when it failed to stop and came toward soldiers despite warning shots during a dusk patrol in Tal Afar, Iraq, 2005[1200×822]
Children cry after their parents were killed when U.S. soldiers with the 1st Battalion fired on their car when it failed to stop and came toward soldiers despite warning shots during a dusk patrol in Tal Afar, Iraq, 2005[1200×822]
This gets lost a lot, but one reason this happened so much is that the hand gestures Americans use to mean stop do not mean stop to Iraqis. The open palm out means hello. This caused a lot of confusion in the early years of the occupation.
TheMightyMeatus420 on
This breaks my heart. She looks just like my daughter.
cuddlepwince on
Why didn’t they stop
vdcsX on
fuck the murican empire
cealild on
Poor kids
Mysterious_Living165 on
“They hate us because of our freedoms”
zep2floyd on
Americans always with an excuse for murdering innocents with the whole Failed to stop line…
Commander_Beet on
The 1st Battalion?
ProxJesus on
Creating a new customer base for weapon market
retrospark on
Oh my god that child pressed up against the wall. He will hold this forever. My heart breaks for all the children affected 💔 this is so unnecessary.
roofpuck on
I hope they are haunted by those children fuck them.
ScissorMeeTimbers on
And then we make movies about how sad this made the soldiers who killed their parents
antinomy-0 on
Fuck these soldiers and any soldier that was involved in the barbaric savage genocidal war against Iraq and the Iraqi people in 2003. Absolute worst.
Marcelio88 on
Horrific what happened there, but I think it’s worth titling correctly.
There is no singular “1st Battalion” in the US Military, there are multiple of them throughout every division. He is wearing a patch belonging to the 25th Infantry Division. Some more research into the photographer shows he was embedded with 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division around the time this photo was taken.
MrAjeebAdmi on
We all know that this story is false, US soldiers have a track record of being trigger happy retards.
Tank-Factory187 on
Remember that *this* is the service people are thanking.
LocKoX2 on
There is a documentary in Netflix about Chris Hondros, the photographer who took this picture. If I remember correctly, they also filmed the moment this happened, it was heartbreaking. He had to hide the footage because of course, the soldiers didn’t want to look incompetent.
There is a moment in which the soldier speaks to the camera, remorseful and trying to ask for forgiveness. Usually I advocate for someone who truly regrets their mistakes; but honestly I couldn’t feel a pinch of compassion for the guy.
morganational on
Poor kids. What a horrible situation. 😞
Chloe_the_tran on
“When it failed to stop and came towards soldiers”
“Family driving around busy city get murdered by terrorists invading their country”
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[Fate of the girl from the photo](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/07/world/middleeast/07photo.html)
[More about photographer](https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-hondros-photos-story-documentary-by-greg-campbell-2018-2?IR=T)
This gets lost a lot, but one reason this happened so much is that the hand gestures Americans use to mean stop do not mean stop to Iraqis. The open palm out means hello. This caused a lot of confusion in the early years of the occupation.
This breaks my heart. She looks just like my daughter.
Why didn’t they stop
fuck the murican empire
Poor kids
“They hate us because of our freedoms”
Americans always with an excuse for murdering innocents with the whole Failed to stop line…
The 1st Battalion?
Creating a new customer base for weapon market
Oh my god that child pressed up against the wall. He will hold this forever. My heart breaks for all the children affected 💔 this is so unnecessary.
I hope they are haunted by those children fuck them.
And then we make movies about how sad this made the soldiers who killed their parents
Fuck these soldiers and any soldier that was involved in the barbaric savage genocidal war against Iraq and the Iraqi people in 2003. Absolute worst.
Horrific what happened there, but I think it’s worth titling correctly.
There is no singular “1st Battalion” in the US Military, there are multiple of them throughout every division. He is wearing a patch belonging to the 25th Infantry Division. Some more research into the photographer shows he was embedded with 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division around the time this photo was taken.
We all know that this story is false, US soldiers have a track record of being trigger happy retards.
Remember that *this* is the service people are thanking.
There is a documentary in Netflix about Chris Hondros, the photographer who took this picture. If I remember correctly, they also filmed the moment this happened, it was heartbreaking. He had to hide the footage because of course, the soldiers didn’t want to look incompetent.
There is a moment in which the soldier speaks to the camera, remorseful and trying to ask for forgiveness. Usually I advocate for someone who truly regrets their mistakes; but honestly I couldn’t feel a pinch of compassion for the guy.
Poor kids. What a horrible situation. 😞
“When it failed to stop and came towards soldiers”
“Family driving around busy city get murdered by terrorists invading their country”
Terrible
Fuck America!
All this literally for nothing.