At 00:03 28-3-02 -0500, John Giorgis wrote: > >BTW, something else that specific reader mentioned was the death of a > >Palestinian doctor who was killed when an Israeli Apache gunship fired on > >his ambulance. Ambulances tend to be quite distinguishable from other > >vehicles; when did it become OK to fire on an ambulance? That not only > >smells of murder, that also smells of a war crime. > >No, it is not o.k. to fire on an ambulance - and I would hope that it was a >mistake.
I find it pretty much impossible to consider it a mistake. Ambulances are quite good at being identifiable as being an ambulance. There is international agreement that ambulances are NOT legitimate targets. Every soldier knows this. So, when a soldier knows that an ambulance is not to be fired at, and that ambulance can easily being identified as being an ambulance, why would that soldier still fire on it? I can think of only one explanation: cold blooded murder. I absolutely cannot figure out how that ambulance could be fired at *by mistake*. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
