FRENCH SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE ON INNOCENT CIVILIANS ON THE IVORY COAST (WARNING VERY GRAPHIC VIDEO)

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[america-rules]

Watch the first one and you see the Frence lined up behind barbed wire in tanks and armour personnel carriers.

http://radioci.embaci.com/englishdownload/frenchsoldiershootingcivilians1.mpg

[BigRedState]

Im sorry.. even with edits.... you cant see a single person with a gun.. nothing.. the people laying on the ground are civillans.. you dont see militans or people with guns on the ground.. you see women and children... people crying! Where do you see the threat? DO you really think someone with a AK47 would shoot at a tank??

[bahblahbah]

OMG, you might want to stop the video before 8 minutes unless you like seeing someone's head blown off literally.

[DoughtyOne]

While I did see some people who were obvously wounded, I also saw a bunch of people who were lying on the ground as if mortally wounded, seemingly without a scratch on them.

In some instances there seemed to be a little too much nudity for the subject matter. Some of the women with no obvious wounds, were having their tops taken off. It's unclear why. These were tops that weren't all that binding, only covering just below the breasts, with bare middrift.

Another observation of mine, was that when the shooting started, there wasn't the customary panic of people dropping to the ground or running for the exits, so to say.

In sections this was just very surreal.

This is either the strangest video of a shooting I've every seen, or there's something else going on in parts of this video.

This will be interesting to watch play out.

[Destro]

typo? to me?

[BJungNan]

I have a cable modem and pay for a faster server and it is really slow to open and play. They must be burning up their servers on this one. Too many people viewing it.

[Drago]

The english version:

http://www.embaci.com/english/home.asp

[Cold Heat]

I suspect this 'trouble' is connected with islam.

Not tryin to be funny when I say....Are not all of the problems connected to Islamic radical crap?

The only one I can think of that is not, is N. Korea, but they are selling them nukes and or Nuke plans and equipment through the Islamic countries that are happy to pass it along to the others.

Bush has this thing exactly right. They are all a gathering threat to the U.S. and it is becoming frightfully clear.

[mikegi]

Where do you see the threat? DO you really think someone with a AK47 would shoot at a tank??

Good grief, single insurgent with a gun in a otherwise normal protest is a standard tactic of the Left. The goal is to get the soldiers to fire on the crowd. Happens in Iraq, happened in Central America in the 1980s, etc, etc.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... What in the hell kind of gun blows someone's head apart like that near the end?"

Any NATO 5.56mm caliber rifle on up. The French use the FAMAS-F2. America uses the same round in the M-16 series and M-249 light machinegun. The round was invented in the USA in the 1950s by Remington as a squirrel hunting cartridge.

The rifle that did that damage was the least-powerful weapon the French troops had. No tear gas, no riot control or non-lethal crowd dispersion at all in this video. Just firearms.

This was a massacre.

[bahblahbah]

At the end of the tape you see a UN truck on fire. Whats up with that?

There are definatly a few hard breaks(maybe just one). Might have been turning on and off the camera though. As soon as the shooting starts its all hectic so that my be the case.

And they do chant USA for a few seconds in the video.

If someone knows french and can tell what else they are saying that'd be nice.

[misharu]

Agreed. I have DSL and it was faster than the DS3's we had running into the Worldcom campus I worked at. Must be getting slammed.

[bahblahbah]

Also it seems like the people that look like had been shot wouldn't have posed any threat the French.

[BigRedState]

Came from the .50 cal fire into the crowed. People were ducking behind the cars, etc. Hit a gas tank.. and poof!

[ChristianDefender]

It seems that the French are very tough in this video... what do u think if they will face against the Marines? are they tough enough against our boys?

[Destro]

YOU WILL NEVER SEE AMERICANS DO THIS!!

Crosby Stills Nash Young - Four Dead In Ohio Lyrics

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are gunning us down.
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?

Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.
We're finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drummin'.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.
Four dead in Ohio.

[Johnnyboy2000]

"DO you really think someone with a AK47 would shoot at a tank??"

Yes!

[Bogey78O]

Try this...never done this before...btw

[Dead Corpse]

Ever see someone stop breathing before? In real life? Looks a bit like a couple of those people. Also, one of the things they tell you to do in first aid, when someone stops breathing, loosen restrictive clothing. Also, not all rifle rounds leave gaping holes in what they hit. Small arms fire like that at point blank could go through a torso leaving a small hole on entry, jelly in between, and a small hole on exist. Just like hitting a deer with an FMJ .308 inside 100 yards.

I agree though. The video was roughly edited and was shot by an amatuer. The whole story isn't there. Including the most important part... why did the French open fire on the crowd? If a bunch in the crowd rushed the line. were throwing rocks/debris. If some in the crowd had firearms of their own.

We just don't know.

[dinok]

"There are definatly a few hard breaks(maybe just one). Might have been turning on and off the camera though. As soon as the shooting starts its all hectic so that my be the case. "

The wounds looked real to me. There also seemed to be some people who had been trampled.

The military vehicles were definately french.