AUSTRAILIAN SOLDIERS BEING SUED

An Iraqi family is suing a group of Australian troops. She claims that they had stopped their vehicle in front of the embassy and then they were fired upon, wounding her and her son. She claims that no warning was given. The soldiers however say that she had not stopped, and in fact was moving quite speedily, and despite several Arabic signals to stop and warning shots, she kept moving toward the embassy. So the unit commander fired 3 shots at the car. One hit the engine block, one hit the windshield ( the glass is what injured her son) and one hit the woman. They have now moved to Australia and are suing the troops.


This is ridiculous, they are just doing their job. And like its not hard enough now they are getting sued for it. That woman was somewhere she shouldnt have been, would not stop or listen to orders, and was a potential threat. Those troops did what they were trained to do and what they should have done.