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U.S. Friendly Fire Video Leaked To Media
By PAISLEY DODDS, Associated Press Writer

LONDON - A leaked video in which an American pilot is heard saying "we're in jail, dude," after U.S. troops killed a British soldier during a friendly fire incident in Iraq was released by The Sun newspaper Tuesday. Lance Cpl. Matty Hull died when troops fired on his convoy in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on March 28, 2003.



A coroner investigating Hull's death had demanded the video be released and presented as evidence in the inquest but U.S. authorities refused. The leak means that the material is now in the public domain, his office said Tuesday, suggesting it may be shown when the inquest resumes Feb. 16.

U.S. military officials conducted their own investigation but the findings have not been made public.

British officials also had asked their U.S. counterparts to release the material to the family but had been rebuffed.

"The main thing to stress is that we have always had a very clear view that what matters is the information should be available to the family and � whilst the Americans cannot be legally obliged to help � they should do so, bearing in mind they are our allies," said Constitutional Affairs Secretary Harriet Harman, who has had several meetings with officials in the U.S. Embassy.

The Pentagon declined comment Tuesday, but the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in London, David Johnson, told the British Broadcasting Corp. it would consider de-classifying the video if the military determined it would not put forces at risk.

The defense ministry said it was unable to persuade the U.S. to declassify the footage � a recording British authorities initially claimed did not exist.

The Ministry of Defense said in a statement Tuesday it had not tried to deceive Hull's family. It said the army's Board of Inquiry used a copy of the video in its investigation of the incident, but it was U.S. government property and it was not authorized to release it.

The pilot can be heard in the cockpit trying to establish whether targets on the ground are coalition forces or insurgents.

One man asserts that orange panels on the vehicles could mean they are coalition forces � most are equipped with bright markers to prevent such incidents.

Another man is heard saying the orange markers look like rockets.

"I think killing these damn rocket launchers, it would be great," a man on the recording is heard saying.

Two U.S. A-10 jets allegedly opened fire on Hull's tank, which was part of five-vehicle convoy engaged in combat outside of Basra. Four other soldiers were injured, including the convoy's leader, Capt. Alexander MacEwen.

The convoy � three British Scorpion tanks and two engineering vehicles � had come to a halt at the edge of a shantytown near the southern Iraqi city of Basra. The soldiers were being approached by a crowd of civilians carrying a white flag when they were attacked.

The transcript printed in The Sun records the alleged exchange between the pilots after they realize what has happened.

Pilot 1: "I'm going to be sick."

Pilot 2: "Ah f---."

Pilot 1: "Did you hear?"

Pilot 2: "Yeah, this sucks."

Pilot 1: "We're in jail, dude."

The other pilot then weeps, according to the transcript.

"There has never been any intention to deliberately deceive or mislead Lance Corporal Horse Hull's family," the defense statement said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070206/ap_on_re_eu/britain_friendly_fire_video

[Axl Rose]

"we're in jail dood"

no surprise to see both numbskulls with southern accents.

jeez, no wonder we're getting our asses wooped by the iraqis and got our butts served by the north vietnamese........too many southerners in the military!

[Svetlana]

The sad part is, the same thing has happened many more times and not one of the pilots has ever been taken off flight status.

[Big_Bird]

I feel quite sorry for the pilots. They were obviously very distressed when they had learnt what they had done. It was their controllers who f@@@ed up. The whole system needs an overhaul.

[Big_Bird]

I take some of that back. The pilots must shoulder some of the blame. I just read the fuller transcript of the pilots conversation to each other.

Cockpit transcript reveals how reservist pilots convinced themselves that British convoy was an Iraqi rocket unit

[Nowhere Man]

[mindmetoo]

[Paddycakes]

It's war for Xsakes... sh*t happens.

[mindmetoo]

[igotthisguitar]

How heroic ...

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