What is the difference between “Targeted,” “Indiscriminate/Incidental,” and “Collateral” in the “Victim Indicator”?
Collateral To be identified as collateral, the following two things MUST have happened: • A combatant (i.e., military in combatant status) MUST have been the TARGET of the event and the attack MUST NOT have been conducted in a reckless manner. When we say that an attack was not reckless, we mean that the assailants were not conducting a mass-casualty attack (trying to kill as many people as possible); AND • The assailants used a weapon or selected a location where damage to noncombatants would be reasonably avoidable (e.g., someone fires small arms at a military patrol in Iraq and misses, killing two bystanders. The bystanders are considered Collateral. Civilian translators working with the military who are wounded or killed are also considered Collateral). Indiscriminate/Incidental Victims who are recklessly killed, injured, or taken hostage (e.g., throwing a grenade at soldier in a crowded marketplace, targeting a government building when it is well known that a public school is next
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