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[Rods2]

Anybody watch this on Danish troops in Afghanistan?

After the Danish troops had been ambushed and were under very heavy fire by the Taliban, to neutralize them they threw a grenade into a ditch and badly injured 4 of them.

When they charged the ditch they found the 4 badly injured Taliban and in their words, "they emptied 5 clips into them as it was the most humain thing to do" and then the officer fired couple more clips down the ditch which killed the 5th member of their group.

They were heavily censored by their commanders back in Denmark for the possible unnecessary killing of the 4 and indiscriminate killing of the 5th. The officer that that killed the 5th in his defense said if he had stuck his head down the ditch to check the situation of the 5th Taliban he may of had his head blown off as he may have been dead, injured or pointing a gun down the ditch...

To me it seemed very humain and proper that the 4 injured Taliban that had been trying to kill them seconds before should not have to put up with much pain and suffering and were able to join Allah at the earliest convenient moment, quickly followed by the 5th.

What do you think?

[Martin_1962]

Why did they say exactly what they did - they should have masaged it

[cem_devecioglu]

in afghanistan conditions are extremely bad.. I dont think they had the chance to be cured properly.. and would suffer for long..

sometimes a quick death preferable..  if that was the case actually.. :-/

[jonnycool]

What exactly would 5 men in a ditch, fighting the enemy, expect to happen when the enemy caught up with them?

This is war ffs

[tigers_gonads]

Can't fault them 

[ninjapirate]

erm, Have they not read the rule book? war, fire at soldiers, get fired back upon, someone dies.
 

[omegod]

Reap what you sow, end of

[Rods2]

Why did they say exactly what they did - they should have masaged it

Yes, as part of the mission debrief, which then got out into the public domain through one of the soldiers telling his mum in a phone conversation. It then showed the officer addressing his men on how to handle the fallout from this and how to justify their actions. Not a clever situation when it is all recorded on camera. 

The camera was on the front line when the contact was made, initially they could not work out where the fire was coming from, even though it was only about 20m in front of them. You then saw one of the troops lob the grenade, the resultant explosion, followed by them charging the position.

It was an interesting documentary, as you saw the debrief from each of the patrols they went on and they were very frank on each others and their overall performance and what lessons could be learnt and improvements made to their soldiering.