7 Royal Marines arrested on suspicion of murder

So, again, we are at the "Guilty until they can prove themselves otherwise" standpoint?....

What?

There is nothing to suggest that the 7 marines in the article "have abused their positions and murdered unarmed or innocent civilians"

I'm quite sure one of them is guilty of something but we have no idea what.
 
must have had bullet wounds in his back from running away, still war is war if it was an insurgent.
Shame they don't play by the rules too.

I've watched a few vids from Apache FLIR of Taliban getting shot running away, even watched a vid where a Taliban got shot out of a tree he was hiding in. I'd link them however I doubt they're appropriate for the forum.
 
What?

There is nothing to suggest that the 7 marines in the article "have abused their positions and murdered unarmed or innocent civilians"

I'm quite sure one of them is guilty of something but we have no idea what.

You may want to re-read my entire post and read the quoted sections in my post to get what I am saying.

I am all for innocent until proven guilty.
 
I'm sure I read that if an insurgent throws a grenade at the troops, the moment the grenade leaves his hands hes counted as being unarmed so they cant touch him.
 
Exactly murder, hardly suprising. To be honest dont understand what you're trying to say?

That's because apparently you don't understand a lot else either.

My point is to jump from 7 soldiers being arrested on SUSPICION of murder to "soldiers have abused their positions and murdered unarmed or innocent civilians" is ****ing moronic.
 
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I'm sure I read that if an insurgent throws a grenade at the troops, the moment the grenade leaves his hands hes counted as being unarmed so they cant touch him.

If you think about it it makes complete sense. If he is not carrying any more weapons then he is no longer a threat - killing him is entirely unnecessary and there's no reason to call it anything but murder. If he is carrying weapons, or you believe that he is still going to be a threat towards you or others then you can use controlled force to stop that happening. That's what the UK ROE is anyway, not so sure about OOA.

What a lot of people seem to want is for the ROE to be more like vengeance - "He shot at me so I get to shoot him!" - which really, really wouldn't work.
 
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That's because apparently you don't understand a lot else either.

My point is to jump from 7 soldiers being arrested on SUSPICION of murder to "soldiers have abused their positions and murdered unarmed or innocent civilians" is ****ing moronic.

Wow dont know where you got that from :confused:

I said its hardly surprising, given what else has occurred in Afghanistan.

Furthermore you seem to be purposely ignoring the "if guilty" part which pretty much is counter to your assumptions.
 
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