Baltimore Sun
March 16, 2007

OXFORD, England--The widow of a British soldier killed by U.S. pilots in Iraq appealed yesterday to President Bush to release the full text of a military report into the incident. Lance Cpl. Matty Hull, 25, was killed when his convoy was strafed by a U.S. warplane in southern Iraq on March 28, 2003. Four other British soldiers were wounded. Susan Hull said 11 lines of the U.S. military's Friendly Fire Investigation Board report into the incident had been blacked out in a copy supplied to the inquest.

OPSEC/PERSEC perhaps?

Hmmmmm... like the press or the bleeding hearts of the world would ever give a rat's ass about OPSEC or PERSEC. They'd rather plaster all that information up where the whole world can see it... they dont care about the lives it will take because for all their high sounding bullspit soldiers mean nothing to them. ****ing media, piss on em.

She has a right to know. I know I'd be a lot angrier than she was if the Americans killed my s/o with friendly fire.

This isn't about the media, its about a widow wanting information concerning the death of her husband.

There is more to this story then have been made available in this report.
Someone screwed the pooch bigtime.

A few of the blue on blue incidents are currently under investigation.

"There is no such thing as friendly fire."

And this woman does she have a security clearance? If no then, as much as it would be wonderful to have full disclosure so she can have all her questions answered, the lives that might be endangered and lost preclude such details being dispersed.

It was the way in which the cockpit video was deemed "classified" by the US, I think most people have seen it now and i personally did not see what was so "classified" by it, neither did a fair few people. Thankfully the Sun newspaper managed to obtain a leaked copy of the cockpit video in this case.

I agree that security is of first priority always but i think in this case that it was used as an excuse. I don't think lives could have been lost by showing this video.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6456191.stm for further reading

As for the whole "It was unlawful because there was no lawful reason for it and in that respect it was criminal." i don't think i agree with the statement.

I have a hell of a lot of respect for the widow though, she has been very brave and showed a lot of common sense.

Well, obviosuly there are papers thy could get the old lady to sign. And still show her the vid, but time and time again the government shows how ignorant they are...

It's not going to bring her son back, sorry, but life sucks sometimes.