""At 03:39 into the recording - you see a group of four men two of whom are clearly armed (Man standing on the extreme left is carrying an AK-47 one of the men in the centre of the group is carrying an RPG-7)""

Nice try Teribus, but in the shorter version of that video, the cameraman and the journalist were clearly identifed as being in that group crossing the open space.

The one you describe with an RPG-7 was the cameraman, and it was he that was seen kneeling at the corner, with his camera pointing across the street. At no point did the "barrel" lift toward the chopper, he simply panned left and right.

When the shit hit the fan, he was one of the two men who ran to the gunner's right. Neither man was carrying anything. The gunner walked his tracers right into them.

Twist it how you like, that gunner wanted to kill everything in sight, and finished off with a callous dismissal of shooting two kids.

Making excuses for them would, in my opinion, make you as bad as they were.

Don T.