"Well Fool, I fought to conceal nothing"

Except in this thread...

"how can this be described as a cover up"

Years of hiding it from the taxpayers funding the murder - just like in Vietnam - and people like you saying that we have no 'right to know what harm is done in our name'!
"So far the US Authorities have point blank refused to release them on every single instance."
Point confirmed.

"the bent and biased way the story has been reported now"

NOW who's biased?

"the crew of the helicopter have to report EVERYTHING they see, that is ridiculous."

Haha! Let me see - Men in Black movie - only the 'hero' of the story saw what was really there in the 'shooting test' - all of the 'best of the best of the best' blasted ALL the innocent aliens, and lestthe real baddie - only HE looked at what he really saw - which is why all the 'best of the best of the best' failed the test due to narrow minded bias.

In the video shoot-em-up games for the public, you have to discriminate between the baddies and the innocent hostages and bystander.

"Umm, their overall mission that day was to protect us, to provide support for us. Ahh, so I can see where, where the initial attack on the, on the group of men was warranted."

Ah - but you REALLY WANT to suppress his further words and judgement of personal experience, just like in the days of Vietnam, don't you! :-) Even the guy on the ground could not accept the attack on the van as being 'correct'. He also said that sort of murder happens many times a day, it's just that you don't get to see the footage.

""friendly-fire""

My Aussie rellies who fought on the Kokoda track were also bombed by the US (you can find my previous comments on never letting armed yanks anywhere near you!) - of course accuracy in the 1940s and inability to see anything much in the mountainous jungle were contributing factors.

"it has now been established beyond any doubt that in the group that was fired upon there were armed men"

Ha! It's now justified by you that when a single armed terrorist is known to be in a crowd of your OWN citizens, you can just blow them ALL away! The arrogant insensitive "Kill them all - let God sort them out!" has been on record since the Crusades - and the residents of those lands have never forgotten THAT either...