How do they know it was an F-15? because 1) John Simpson is a seasoned war reporter and knows what he's looking at. but more importantly 2) the american soldiers in the convoy told him it was.

Secondly, all this talk about the confusion of war and such... it should be mentioned that the US soldiers that called in the airstrike (on an enemy tank a few miles away).... WERE TRAVELING IN THE SAME CONVOY FFS!

because the video shows an F-14 Tomcat, NOT an F-15 Eagle. The wings are totally NOT those of an Eagle, nor is the shape of the fuselage and the nose. Maybe an Eagle DID drop on them, but what we see is a Tomcat. Anyways, in every war there are incidents like this, and on every side. A terrible clip to watch, but it does give a new perspective to what for most people is just a tidy "aerial view" war.

my late grandad told me, when British planes fly over the Germans run, when Germans flew, the allies ran & when the septics turned up everyone ran.
These happen all to often caused by the Americans, a gung ho! load of trigger happy idiots & this is from a member of the RAF Regiment

at least the U.S. does not sit on there bums for 10 hours to let the bad guys get away.Then claim that there are no bad guys.I hope the rest of the raf know better than you.

definitely an f-14.

they said it was a b-52,the person calling the coordinates for bombing gps batteries went dead,when you put in new batteries it gives your position thats why they got bomed

When the US base was in the Philippines, they had bomb a entire village of Natives or aboriginals claiming because they mistaken the village as the training ground. Hurray to American High Technology and reliable intelligence. As it said in the movie of Armageddon " American Technology , Russian Technology they are all made in f**king Taiwan"

And my bosses always making fun of french by quoting one general or whoever during WW2: "I'd reather have german army infront of me, then french army behind"...It surely should be said the same about american army, you never know when they are going to turn on you!

F-14

It is in our nature as animals to kill to survive. When we learned to worship we learned to kill for other reasons than food.

Wish Aliens would abduct me and take me away from this warmongering planet; I wouldn’t even mind the probing.

sorry but the kids are not tought how to use a compas and map.They got rid of the old salts that know how to do that back in the 90s.

little turd-kabob. Just because YOUR army ground to a halt because both of it's donkeys got the shits. OH WELL. Funny how people always overlook how our "inept" and "evil" military and leadership has saved the free world's ASS over and over - and then helped to rebuild it all - over and over. I wonder why the OTHER continents are always killing each other and crying for our HELP? (start boombox sounds): Yeah, you suck - we know it - you suck - and show it

Most countries needing help request assistance from the UN. But the US wields such power and resources that the UN is forced to bow to it, and is powerless to stop the US acting out of its own interests.

The US didn't lift a finger in WWII until they were attacked by Japan.
The US did help out Kuwait but they have a vested interest in the oil, and most of the west has a slightly shameful relationship with the Middle East because of the oil
However to my knowledge Sierra Leone and Somalia are different. THe US would love to think they are the good guys, which they are as long as their interests are served. I'd like to see them do more to help prevent genocides.

thank god it wernt the welsh dat attacked u.s.a on 9/11 otherwise all british wud b bombed "accidently"
cumon u know its true :P

That is definetly not an F-111. Not that I'm expert the only planes I can recognise are F-111, FA-18, and C130. Australias AF is the RAAF (RAF is the poms).
RAAF didn't have F111's in Iraq, at least not early on, as they were all grounded in Australia due to investigations into an accident and maintenance issues.

Its a I-F ucked up!

there's some jerk using my old screen name, and responses to his comments land in my mailbox. the whole metacafe system is crap.

umm aren't we the only ones willing to fight in iraq...i don't think anyone else in the world really wants to help us...atleast countries with F-15s and such...they trying to stay out of it, the euros and such have their own planes

The whole iraq-war is Bush's fault!!!!
He is responible for that bomb and every single person who have lost his or her life in this war!

End of story!

Bush is not the only one that made the decision to go to war. Get your facts first before make a retarded comment.

after what bush and the gorverment did to the twin towers .. bush clearly declared war on iraq and osama cause they had "weapons of mass destruction" *cough* busllshit* cough* president always makes last decision u stupid republican

If you have any intelligence you would know that he has to get approval before he goes to war. There is congress that has approve this you retard.

...save ALL the money we're wasting in Iraq ($1trillion by conservative estimates) and get the hell out of there NOW.

God, I hate the Pentagon. I hate defense contractors that grow fat making bombs that blow up women, childeren and BBC corespondants. I hate my fellow americans whose TV-addled brains are incapable of forming dissenting thoughts and opinions. I hate flag waving morons who think the Pentagon defends our liberty. (What could possibly be more manifestly untrue?)

But most of all, I hate the architects of this war. Ironically, that BBC cameraman has seen more actual war (in those 5 minutes) that all of the following people combined: Geoge Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Paul Wolfowitz - VIET NAM DRAFT DODGERS ALL OF THEM.

I want my money back! (and my republic)

Amen, dude.

The first image of the aircraft looked more like a British Tornado, not 14 or 15. Didn't see the twin vertical stabilizers. The second image half way through the edited video did look like a 14

The first image, although blurry and wobbly, is definitely an F-14 in a nosedive position with a camera view from under the plane (landing gear facing camera).
It's not heading towards the camera as I had first thought, which makes it look like a single vertical stabilizer or with 2 angled vertical stabilizers as I had first thought, guessing it was an F-18. Then I got a really good pause.

i watched this documentary when it was aired sometime last year. it was a US aircraft. thats a fact.

Well by all means, if you saw a documentary than that's all the proof I need. Some fat slob calling himself an American filmmaker made a documentary too, I'm ready to carve his story in stone.

probably true for most wars the americans have been involved in... so sad

I note that some of you really have no clue as to what you are talking about. The plane is an F-14 (99% certain). The pilot saw a convoy and engaged it. Enemy convoys are legitimate targets for aircraft. They are not used only on hardened targets as stated above. Who know what intel the pilot did or did not have. He made a mistake but he has to make certain assumptions none the less and he has to make them under combat conditions. With perfect hindsight, he could have done better. Perhaps there was nothing that could have helped. Remember, bad guys can shoot at airplanes too.

RE: Cathy. True. 50 million people can now blame or rather more accurately thank George W. Bush for their liberation in the last 5 years. Or were Iraq and Afghanistan better places before? And Cathy, assuming that you are a female, how do you think women were treated by those now deposed tyrrants? Women in those countries can now do what you probably have always taken for granted. Should Saddam be put back in power? Do you really want his "rape rooms" back in operation? One more little item just as trivia, you can blame G. W for the fact that thousands of children in both countries will NOT die this year as they would have simply because they are now vacinated from the most basic childhood diseases. They were not before. Est. 70,000 in Afghanistan alone. Per year. From things like Diphtheria and Cholera. All that seems to be forgotten in all this.

As for this incident, war is and always will be messy, bloody, horrific. Innocent people will always be hurt no matter what measures are taken to avoid them. The fog of war. Friendly fire is far less likely now than in past wars but, as is evident here, it still happens and probably always will. Just one example: At least one US sub was sunk by the US Navy in friendly fire in WWII. Over 100 men gone in a single moment. The military does spend billions trying to develope anti friendly fire systems. The ones now are far better than those used in the First Guld War but nothing is perfect. You do the best you can with what you have.

And just as an aside, think for a moment about this. Last year, in the US, 40,000 died in car "accidents". Most could have been avoided. Do any of you who condemn the pilot here feel the same way about the idiot driving by you who causes a wreck while they yammer on a cell phone or don't obey the basic traffic laws? Perhaps some of you drive just as poorly? Be honest. 40,000 people per year, gone. Makes friendly fire in this war look rather tame doesn't it. And I bet many of you here even think anything of it. Maybe you should before you condemn this pilot. "People in glass houses..."

Totally agree with you.

A. Thats an F-14 Tomcat. Been in the service with the navy for a little over 30 years. Still one of the top planes. B. I feel bad for an American, British, Australian, or allied troops that dies, and never sorry for a poor enemy SOB that comes in the way of our bullets or bombs. For one who has friends going to war I say FUCK THE ENEMY!

Sadamm and his sons slept well in their many palaces after each day of torturing, raping and killing fellow Muslims. YOU A-HOLE.

The US has been at war with Iraq since 1991 when they invaded an ally of the US....Kuwait, to expand Iraq. The US came to Kuwait's defense and chased the Republican Guard back into southern Iraq when Saddam "surrendered" by signing a resolution agreeing to certain terms.....such as letting UN inspecters search for weapons. After giving Saddam over 20 opportunities to uphold his side of the agreement, the US gave him one last deadline in 2003 to cooperate with the UN and Saddam pretty much said he will never comply with the resolution he signed. Additionally, during the 10-yr cease-fire, Iraqi forces fired on US planes hundreds of times. The problem is that the US/UN should have went back into Iraq after the 1st time Saddam didn't comply with his surrender agreement....but Clinton had other things to worry about....like Hilliary!!

Why are so many willing to embrace the enemy?
It's a mystery to me! We're a dying breed I guess. Having good morals and fighting for what's right just isn't what people care about any more.You're the salt of the Earth! I wish you well and a happy EASTER my friend!

....how does this relate to the movie shown??

i wish John F. Kennedy was here to see this

would he do? go get another hooker?

paranoid imbecils fuck off!