planting evidence?

three u.s. snipers claim that the u.s. is planting guns, ammo & explosives with the goal of baiting in insurgents. when people pick them up, they're gunned down.

now, this is a claim. and, it's a claim coming from 3 snipers accused of planting evidence on people they gunned down. so, are they just claiming this to cover their butts? of course, the gov't won't confirm or deny whether or not they've authorized any sort of baiting plans.

other reactions? well, "James Ross, the legal and policy director of Human Rights Watch, said the dispersal of ammunition and explosives by US forces as a method of targeting insurgents would present obvious human rights problems.

"It seems to me that there are all sorts of reasons that civilians would want to pick up ammunition that is sitting on the ground," he said."

yeah, that does seem quite problematic. would you pick up a gun you saw in the street? don't tell me that you'd call the police, because that's not really an option in a war zone. you may pick it up for your own personal safety, to get it off the street, or for whatever reason. you may pick it up to stop someone nefarious from picking it up. or, yeah, you may pick it up to use against the foreign occupiers.

if i'm in iraq, i'm not picking up anything. in fact, i'm probably staying inside. and when i go outside, i'm leaving the country.