Kevin, have a look at the video from about 03:39 onto 04:08 a group of four men three of them are clearly carrying weapons (two with AK-47's and one with an RPG-7) so so much for the standard-operating-procedure-when-unarmed-civilians-have-been-shot crap. More likely than not your two reuters men were probably invited along, or at least tipped the wink, by some insurgent group that a bunch of Americans were going to get whacked and asked if they wanted a ring-side seat. Unbeknown to this bunch of insurgents the Apaches were already onto them and the hunters became the hunted.

To try and pass this thing off as being 100% the fault of the US Military is ridiculous, there were a large number of contributing factors that would have made recognition plain as a bloody pikestaff and the Reuters guys ignored them all. One thing is for certain, going by attitude and body language the two Reuters guys were well known by the group they approached.

As for the guns and grenades photographed at the scene, those photographs were shown to Reuters Staff within two weeks of the incident and there did not seem to be any questions from them then. The inference of the whole recent disclosure appears to attempt to foster the lie of some sort of cover up when in fact there was no cover up and as with any instance of live firing there is a debrief and investigation to analyse the action from start to finish, immediately the guys come in from patrol or land.