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WikiLeaks shows reporter killings in Iraq

Published: 06 April, 2010, 05:52
Edited: 23 April, 2010, 01:24


Video footage from US Apache helicopter showing the murder

WikiLeaks has released a video taken from a US Apache helicopter showing the murder of two Reuters journalists in Iraq in 2007. Will there be any repercussions for the US?

 
16 COMMENTS
SS April 06, 2010, 09:18 quote
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Where are the all so called human rights authorities.... it is the open truth in the world..... what US is doing in the name of self imposed so called war against terror, they are just killing innocents...

Tharms April 06, 2010, 10:11 quote
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If you are not an American, please push your government to push for sanctions against the U.S. We are fast losing, if we have not already have lost, control of our government. It is just as important for the citizens of other countries to see this atrocity as it for for us. Only by working together in unity can we hope to bring an end to this monster that has grown out of the Potomac to go rampaging across the globe. Only with your help can we hope to restore America to the place we all once idolized. Real Americans, not the elite who make money off of these wars and economic manipulations, are ashamed by this and by what our country as become, but we are being sidelined, marginalized, and economically attacked by our own government. If you want our government out of your countries, you've got to get involved in ours -- and quickly. Please help. Thank you WikiLeaks.

Razkolnik April 06, 2010, 10:23 quote
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Unbelievable! When will the inhuman US occupation of so many countries end?!

The Old Man April 06, 2010, 11:44 quote
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I have seen this video in full and have been discusted and sickened by the calous nature of the pilots who were clearly excited at the opportunity to kill. The pilots may have been able to justify (by the skin of thier teeth) the initial engagement due to the possibility of weapons being sighted, however the murder of an injured man being recovered by two unarmed civillians (who were also fired upon and pursued) using a clearly civillian vehicle, with children inside (and possibly other wounded in the back) cannot be justified. Even layers with a vivid emagination would struggle to justify that one. The pilots have high resolution, high magnification, optically stabalised sights and could clearly see (if they had cared enough to look) that this vehicle and the wounded man and his rescuers were of no threat to them or any US forces in the area. The footage, combined with the commentary from the pilots clearly illustrates that the US personnel were 'itching' to open fire again, indeed from their comments they actually hoped that the injured man crawling on the floor would reach for anything that looked like a weapon so they could justify killing the wounded. It is a miracle that the two children survived 30mm cannon fire (I can only speculate at the horrific nature of their large calibre wounds), although the refusal to treat them at a US medical facility and send them to an Iraqi Police station for forwarding to an Iraqi hospital was a possible death sentace. The US personnel could clearly be heard saying it was the parents fault for bringing children into a combat zone. Well, haven't the US turned all of Iraq into a combat zone? I have come to expect a total lack of respect for life and 'trigger happy' behaviour from US mercenaries, but I had hoped for much better from US regulars. Behaviour such as this will do nothing to repair the image of the US and it will do much to aid the recruitment of anti-US fighters in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

munda April 06, 2010, 14:42 quote
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The Globe is dealing with the greatest Evil in the human kind history which in its existance of couple of hundred years or so it has been in War 95% of its time. This great Evil is called USA.

Kihnu April 06, 2010, 19:03 quote
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This video clip from an American Apache helicopter is just a tiny glimpse into the bloody murderous evil America has spawned in Iraq. There are numerous reasons why Americans feel they can kill, maim, and torture the Iraqi people at will, but he primary ones seem to be associated with the American mentality that only American lives have any value and the Iraqi people are just dirt. This mentality seems to derive from: 1. Arrogance of an invader that feels itself invincible - not unlike the Germans who invaded Russia in June of 1941. 2. Americans have always anointed themselves with the right to kill and destroy other people if the carnage serves "American interests". 3. Americans have never recognized the right of other people to exists free of American influence. 4. American military personnel truly enjoy killing, maiming, and torturing other human beings as evidenced by the enthusiasm shown by the pilots of this helicopter, the photos of smiling American prison guards at Abu Grahib torture gulag, those who beat an Iraqi general to death. or the giggling American soldiers who threw a live puppy over a cliff to the shouts of "hooaaa!!". May the Good Lord show his mercy to the Iraqi people, because the American occupiers won't.

Kihnu April 06, 2010, 21:20 quote
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Munda: "This great Evil is called USA." USA would not be so evil if she had not anointed herself as "America the beautiful", the "champion of human rights" and "the best hope for mankind". Such delusional assumptions leads a nation into arrogant abuse of military power as we saw in WW II, and throughout history. The anglo-Americans will not mend their arrogant ways as long as they rule USA; however, they will cease being a majority in a few decades and a new more peaceful America should emerge. I hope the world will survive the next four decades without the anglo-Americans doing something destructive to us all in order to maintain power in the USA.

Sean April 06, 2010, 23:48 quote
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Wow American troops did that, i cant even imagine what Iran did to those protesters, what Russia does to Chechnya or China to Tibet.

Bob April 07, 2010, 11:05 quote
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Sean - you are either ignorant or just trying to be provocative. The United States have killed so many Iraqi civillians that even they have lost count. Even conservative estimates now put the figures above 100000, with some estimates being more than double that figure. The last time civillians were killed on such a scale Chancellor Adolf was in power. The post WW1 period of USA history will be remembered by future generations, at best, as imperial Americas dark age, and at worst...........who can yet say.

Mckoi April 07, 2010, 22:47 quote
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Everyday I find out more and more what my government has been doing all these years... we have no right to be there and need to leave immediately... it makes me sick and wonder why we have lost our way in the world... I sometimes wonder what TRUE freedom is anymore...

Hanna Swaag April 08, 2010, 11:30 quote
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Thank you WikiFeaks,very brave and stay safe.

Dollar April 09, 2010, 00:04 quote
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Beware of the woman who is running the world.

Wally April 10, 2010, 04:44 quote
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Was it fair to kill the wounded man and those helping him? Is this what the american rules of engagement allow? If the rules of engagement do allow medics to be killed for helping wounded people, shouldn't they at least make a public effort to warn people not help the wounded, rather that to keep it secret in the rules of engagement? Then when US officials are asked about this, they can explain their efforts to get the message to the Iraqi people to not help anybody who is wounded, including their spouses, children, relatives and friends . Otherwise, wouldn't you just assume that the wounded man and those helping him, where killed in cold blooded murder?

alann April 16, 2010, 03:52 quote
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April 06, 2010, 23:48, Sean wrote > Wow American troops did that, i cant even imagine what Iran did to those protesters, what Russia does to Chechnya or China to Tibet. Exactly Sean! Chechnya is Russia, Tibet is China! What their respective governments do to keep terrorism financed by the West in check is their business. However, is Baghdad an American city? Once Madeleine Albright was asked if the documented deaths of over 100,000 Iraqi children that were killed either directly by bombs or bullets or indirectly through inhumane sanctions by the Americans and British during the 90's was justified. You are guessing correctly, she said it was well worth it! If this is how their leadership thinks what do you expect from halfwit inbreeds riding in choppers above foreign cities immune from any kind of Earthly prosecution?

Mikhail April 22, 2010, 09:28 quote
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I have all the earthly prosecution they need in the world right in the next room ... I call it a 9K32 Strela-2 a.k.a. "SA-7 Grail"

dixienormns November 20, 2011, 06:36 quote
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thats the us gov for u where are the war crime trials for the usa  and the no fly zone

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