Bahrain Updates

Mar 17, 2011 20:20

Bahrain TV would like you to think that the soldier in the following picture is not holding an machine gun/cannon.


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burning_phoneix March 18 2011, 04:01:29 UTC
No helicopters have been used in the campaign and I can tell from one very small logical step:

Those AH-1 Cobra helicopters in the video (NOT Apaches) can easily massacre 100+ people a minute. Fatalities (NOT casualties) would run into the hundreds if even one of these choppers were used.

Even the door gunner in a Huey (the first picture) can easily kill 100+ people even if he was blind.

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musouka March 18 2011, 04:42:20 UTC
I know it's not an Apache. I wasn't the one who uploaded the video :P

Yes, using the deadly firepower of these would result in massive deaths. These were used mainly for intimidation and scaring people.

That said, there have been unconfirmed reports that random fire from helicopter like the one in the first pic caused the deaths of the Saudi Sergent on the 16th.

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burning_phoneix March 18 2011, 04:54:58 UTC
The Saudi dead turned out to be false IIRC.

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musouka March 18 2011, 04:56:11 UTC
It has not been confirmed officially to begin with. I haven't followed the news on this one so I don't know.

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