You have obviously never heard 30mm cannon fire Lox especially not one firing at 600 rounds per minute.

1. that the people in the van were in their own locality?

Got their address have you Lox? or is that just an assumption on your part? Having said that, it is I would agree a fairly reasonable assumption, but you do not know for certain, therefore do not present it as a fact. It is however factual that those "civilians" WERE armed.

As for the actions of the van driver, he knew or should have known that he should not remove anything or anybody from the scene, that should have been left to the authorities as Mr McCord says.

What McCord's opinion of the incident and the decision to engage the van is, is irrelevant. He is making that judgement in hindsight based on what he saw when he looked into the inside of that van. The helo crew reported what was happening asked for permission to engage the target in accordance with the ROE in force at the time. They received permission to fire, they committed no crime. All of that is fact Lox not supposition.

No weapons were removed because they were not given the opportunity to do so.