Posted on 08/31/2007 7:39:19 PM PDT by camerakid400
Yer a better man than me.
“So maybe the Marines thought fire was coming from the taxi/sedan and/or the two houses that seem to be right in line with where the taxi/sedan stopped.”
Not really - Houses 1 & 2 are almost straight south and the Taxi was a further distance and almost due west.
Houses 3&4 are North west, but at a strange angle to where the HV’s might have been stopped
Please keep posting that link everywhere you go. I don’t see it enough!
And, thanks.
JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED WHEN ALL OUR HADITHA MARINES ARE EXONERATED.
BTTT
The replied-to post #90 by usmcobra looks to be the summary of what went down.
Your Taxi position is wrong, there is nothing at that location that resembles the object next to it in the videos.
And what is the source of your times, Time Magazine?
34.1274°, 42.38°, Is the actual location that the Taxi stopped
Feel free to compare my google earth location with the video.
It is the only object that matches the video along that road and near the Marines to be where the Taxi stopped.
Your location also puts the Taxi around a curve and almost out of line of sight of the Marines.
I posted the link - comes from the same site you posted your cnn pic from.
There is the big rock near the taxi that makes a good landmark.
“34.1274° ( N ? ) , 42.38° ( W ? ) , Is the actual location that the Taxi stopped”
In the middle of the Atlantic ?
One more thought, understand I’m NO fan of 60 minutes, but they were the ones that continued to do stories on the Lacrosse team in NC...backing up or proving those young men were innocent...so now we’ve got them on the Marines side here...I’m assuming they are...I didn’t see this the first time around...IF they are on the Marines side showing this again is excellent....timed just right, too.
My Bad ... got your location ... but it’s ‘way off -—
look for the street that goes off at a sharp angle behind it ...
Rotate Google earth so north is down and you will see how it matches up with the car when the shot shows it pointing left. you can use the rock and the rectangular topped shed up from it. Tilt and zoom google earth and you can match the video.
thanks red... when I was talking about the sidebar I was talking about Newsbusters. If you aren’t one of their chosen few your article has to get a certain number of hits to make the front page.
Rotate Google earth so north is down and you will see how it matches up with the car when the shot shows it pointing left. you can use the rock and the rectangular topped shed up from it.If I rotate the earth so that north is down that would mean that the taxi drove past the Marines on or shortly after the IED attack going east to west and not going towards the Marines west to east.
Tell me which way you think the drone is headed in the Video.
I say west.
There is the big rock near the taxi that makes a good landmark.
That's one of the five bodies.
The roof and it's angle towards the road is a better reference and ignore the objects on the far side of the blockhouse they may not show up on Google earth (temporary item such a bricks as opposed to actual structures)
Back up from this - until just before the scene angle changes ... On the far left you will see a rectanglur topped shed with two door facing you - the unique angles and spacing of the fences can be easily found at the location I gave you for the taxi.
The shed roof is at Lat 34° 7’37.63”N 42°22’43.84”E
I see familiar faces of our Florida gang in these photos.....and now I remember what was printed on the streamer that our Florida Air Force plane, FReeper One, was toting over the Tampa skyscrapers.
Those were the days my friend.....and I hope we can do it all over again if and when another Clinton comes to our state.
I hope some of the freepers who live in Murtha's district are reading this thread and taking note of what can be done in front of his local office.
I'd crawl through broken glass to freep the Murtha creep if his headquarters weren't so far away from the Sunshine State.
Leni
I think CNN and the like think that our Marines should ring a doorbell to announce their presence, rather than announce their presence with a spray of ammunition despite the fact that the Marines are IN A FREAKIN’ war zone! Too many years have gone by since the CNN camera crew lit up our military coming ashore during the first Gulf War and I just can’t forgive the media anymore. These anchors and reporters think they are so important...
By My calculation's using your location for the Taxi places the Taxi the furthest from the action instead of the closest to the Marines.
According to My measurement it is 173 yards from the Marines according to your position.
My Position which is also closer to the road and the Marines is only 55 yards away, it also puts the Taxi next to the road instead of around a curve and well off of the road.
But wait.... There's more...If as he has said Dela Cruz urinated on one of the dead at the taxi look at how far he had to go to do it.
Look at how many houses are in this area and yet only four houses were searched?
That's because The Houses searched, particularly in the case of the southern houses had a clear shot at the Marines.
Now I will admit that the house on the north side isn't in a direct field of fire, but it is possible that the Marines saw insurgents run from the house between it and the Marines before searching those particular ones.
Ping
Here is one of Red’s graphics
http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/SSgtWuterich/Diagrams/WhiteTaxi.jpg
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