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Re: Hotel Palestine
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:36:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Pedro Silva writes:
> It's not just "wait for orders"; is "wait for superior assessment of the
> altered situation". The hotel, which would in abstract be a non-target,
> might become one AFTER command's assessment of the situation. They receive
> info from the tank, process it, and issue any possible line of conduct.
If the sniper had fired an RPG at the tanks instead of an AK-47 (or
whatever), would you likewise assert that the targeted soldiers should
hunker down and wait?
And, once you agree that the presence of an RPG changes things, you'll
need to justify why you think the soldiers could have known with confidence
that the sniper wasn't armed with one.
> Do I need to remind you that "embedded reporters" are even closer to the
> action? Meters from it, while this hotel was hundreds of meters away from
> the tank?
Oh, come on. You're saying, in effect, that someone standing to the side
of a rocket engine is in greater danger than someone standing directly
behind it at an insignificantly greater distance.
Dave!
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| (...) No. In case an RPG had been fired, people (near it) in the hotel would have been able to tell and run away. And the response would have been proportional. Then again, was there a sniper? (...) Would a sniper be so IDIOT to the point of (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) No. (...) It's not just "wait for orders"; is "wait for superior assessment of the altered situation". The hotel, which would in abstract be a non-target, might become one AFTER command's assessment of the situation. They receive info from the (...) (21 years ago, 10-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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