The vehicle was there for over an hour before the choppers came, so there is a good chance it was already looted.
The reporter who died while reporting live on the air was a horrible event for Iraqi's, Americans, everyone.
That alone will cause so many problems. The US is trying to improve it's image in the Mid-East, and things like that just send the local impression of the US down the crapper.
It will cause more people to get into the terror act, and into insurgency. It will cause more terrorism worldwide.
Iraqi's will suffer, they are simply pawns now in a seeming proxy war in their own cities.
Americans will be targetted, as will other nationalities, aid agencies, everyone.
I don't believe that was a "called shot", rather a pilot pulling a trigger on his own.
The tapes that were being shot by the media at that time dispute the official statements by the military that the choppers came under fire. That will cause more distrust.
The pilots will not face an Iraqi court, that will cause more disillusionment and hatred (locals will see it as a double standard).
I see no good coming out of that event at all. And that is bad for everyone.
Tommorow, we'll have already forgotten it and will be worried about rushhour traffic, monday night football and a big hurricane. They'll replay that reporter getting his back blown to shreds while on the air, over and over and over and over....
That just cost more lives, American, Iraqi, anyone.
