Ship hired by US military fires warning shots in Gulf
In March, another U.S. military-chartered ship preparing to cross the Suez Canal fired warning shots at a small boat, killing an Egyptian on board.
Warning shots? You do not get killed by warning shots. Why do you allow your writers to merely repeat what the military’s public relations officers say? It’s no wonder the Bush administration was able to drag us into war in Iraq as easily as they did.
Alex
It does seem that when someone is killed, the distinction between warning shots and just plain shooting at the boat is pretty difficult to spot: GBU Editor
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Its self evident that if someone is killed the shots were not for warning but were targetting human beings. In military procedures the world over warning shots are fired skybound, way above the vessels masts, aimed at falling way beyond it’s tracked navigation route.
No one is killed by “warning shots” unless the’re fired by California Police, Blackwater, or Gen. Patreus’ soldiers.
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