Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.
-- George Orwell

Collateral Murder

Stills

Missile attacks

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A man enters a department building. The building will be bombarded moments later.	Another pedestrian walks in front of the same building, unaware of the impending danger.
The building was reported to be a possibly abandoned construction site, potentially occupied by insurgents.	The pedestrian gets caught in the fireball as the Hellfire missile explodes on the building.
To the right inside the building a couple of people can be seen. Yet the bombardment continues.	People arrive at the scene - they will be shelled shortly thereafter.
Three hellfire missiles were fired at the building.	The building was registered as destroyed in the battle damage assessment.

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