“360 rotational fire” against civilians ordered in Iraq - Former US Army Specialist
June 28, 2010 01:35 pm
Former US Army Specialist Ethan McCord has revealed that
orders for “360 rotational fire” against civilians were issued in
Such mass execution of civilians has been prosecuted in the past under
international law in the cases of
This claim suggests a war crime which far surpasses errant bombs or overzealous
individual soldiers in the heat of battle. This is the mass execution of
civilians.
If McCord’s allegations of an order for a standard operating procedure of “360
rotational fire” against civilians are true, this far surpasses battlefield
negligence, accident, or even over-zealousness in the heat of battle. As a
battalion consists of anywhere from four to six companies, that order would
have been handed down to dozens of platoons and up to 1,000 men.
The killings which McCord said he witnessed would have been egregious,
systematic, and calculated. The order also would undo all that many
well-meaning American soldiers have been trying to accomplish in
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