Snipers Describe Classified Program
By Josh White and Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, September 24, 2007; Page A01
A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.
The classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed.
"Baiting is putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy," Capt. Matthew P. Didier, the leader of an elite sniper scout platoon attached to the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment, said in a sworn statement. "Basically, we would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the item against U.S. Forces."
from the Washington Post ...
My comment: Trial by Law of Averages - we're bound to get some of them this way. The rest we shoot are just collateral damage. Yup ... they hate us for our freedoms ... not to mention, they might not be too happy about our logic.
Maybe we should introduce these tactics into the domestic War on Drugs ... or better yet, into the domestic War on Poverty. Spread some money around and if someone picks it up, they're obviously poor. so we shoot 'em. No ... wait ... we'd be shooting too many Republican Congressmen mistaking the cash for special interest
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