US Doctors Save Burned Afghan Girl

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This is why I am so happy with our military medicine. Not only do they treat our soldiers, but they treat civilians with top quality medicine.
It is just horrifying that people have to go through all of that though, civilian or enemy. What makes me upset is that the use of incendiary weapons on or near civilians was made "illegal" by an annex the Geneva Conventions, however compliance and acceptance was not required. Guess who didn't sign...the US, go figure.
What tragedies though, its truly saddening.
 
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The original news link keeps erroring out on me. So can't speak of it's use yet. WP AKA Willy Peter is used for more then one reason in the military. Sure there used for incendiary bombs which silver is correct and their direct use on persons is banned by the Geneva Convntion. But there are other uses, when i was a Forward Observer in the Army we used them deployed in the air with a chute to slow their decent to light up battle fields so we could call in direct fire. Still burning when they touched down.

I'm hoping this was a mishap with the child in the wrong place at the wong time, and not a incendiary bomb dropped on the population
 
silver said:
What makes me upset is that the use of incendiary weapons on or near civilians was made "illegal" by an annex the Geneva Conventions, however compliance and acceptance was not required. Guess who didn't sign...the US, go figure.
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Wrong.

Under the GC article you're trying to quote, weapons such as WP cannot be used primarily as weapons.

WP can be used to create it's (fantastic) smoke screen, and any enemy combatant that gets burn from it is pure gravy.

Gotta love loop holes.




Sucks, and sorry, for the girl, and any other civilian, though. (Understatement of the year, but can't really say anything beyond that)
 
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Linuss said:
Wrong.
Under the GC article you're trying to quote, weapons such as WP cannot be used primarily as weapons.
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Yes, thats what incendiary weapons are defined as; primarily to set fire or burn. Besides they use the term "shelled" so i assume it wasn't a smoke screen, or something to illuminate the area (it was the morning).
 
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silver said:
Yes, thats what incendiary weapons are defined as; primarily to set fire or burn. Besides they use the term "shelled" so i assume it wasn't a smoke screen, or something to illuminate the area (it was the morning).
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Artillery "shells" smoke screens in all the time.




But it's primary official role with the US military is as a smoke producer, a job it does well.

And as you know, we aren't a signatory, so it means crap anyhow.
 
Anyway, back to the OP;

If anyone has ever seen the video of an insurgant sniper shooting a soldier in Iraq, where the soldier falls and gets back up;

Turns out the soldier was a medic. After he got back up, his squad returned fire and hit the sniper. When they found him, the solder that the insurgent tried to kill ended up working on his wounds and saving his life.


Talk about ironic.
 
Linuss said:
Anyway, back to the OP;

If anyone has ever seen the video of an insurgant sniper shooting a soldier in Iraq, where the soldier falls and gets back up;

Turns out the soldier was a medic. After he got back up, his squad returned fire and hit the sniper. When they found him, the solder that the insurgent tried to kill ended up working on his wounds and saving his life.


Talk about ironic.
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Yeah, I saw that video. Pretty nice of the medic to help save the guy who just tried to kill him.

Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?index=...t&p=8ECE49E0735DBE96&v=NXB-ep2sAMA&playnext=0
 
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