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IMHO, the engagement of the van appeared legitimate. The van was not marked as medical, religious, or otherwise deemed a non-combatant. It arrived swiftly on scene removing the people the crew had just engaged and the visuals they showed at the end of the children in the van were not clearly children sitting in the passenger seat.
I am not saying the killing of civilians is good or wanted, I'm just saying in defense of the aircrew it would be prudent to engage a possible hostile situation that very closely resembles other situations where the people on the ground were combatants. The flip side of the coin that wiki is bringing up, is what if they crew did nothing and the camera WAS an RPG. It most likely would not have ended up in the news except as more American soldier's dead.
Once again this is my very humble and ignorant opinion.
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