Collateral Murder. Rules_of_engagement (pdf) Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi. A secret video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead after launching an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency, was revealed by Wikileaks today. The footage of the July 2007 attack was made public in a move that will further anger the Pentagon, which has drawn up a report identifying the whistleblower website as a threat to national security.
The US defence department was embarrassed when that confidential report appeared on the Wikileaks site last month alongside a slew of military documents. The release of the video from Baghdad also comes shortly after the US military admitted that its special forces attempted to cover up the killings of three Afghan women in a raid in February by digging the bullets out of their bodies.
The newly released video of the Baghdad attacks was recorded on one of two Apache helicopters hunting for insurgents on 12 July 2007. Is This the Future of Journalism? This week marked the international coming-out party for a new media organization that could upend the sacred cows of traditional journalism. Wikileaks, an Internet-savvy investigative journalism outfit, released a video showing an American Apache helicopter open fire on a group of men, killing two Reuters employees, along with 10 other people, on July 12, 2007.
"There was no threat warranting a hail of 30mm [caliber gunfire] from above," says Anthony Martinez, a former U.S. Army noncommissioned officer who has watched thousands of hours of aerial footage of Iraq. The video, seen through the perspective of the Apache gun camera, captures a dark moment in the Iraq war. As the American airmen chuckle over the body count, it also amounts to a damning indictment of war culture. True to its promise to release complete source material, Wikileaks has posted the full 38-minute gun camera video on YouTube. Neither weapon is highlighted in the Wikileaks video.
WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Ir. WikiLeaks posts Iraq killings video WikiLeaks has posted a video on its website which it claims shows the killing of civilians by the US military in Baghdad in 2007. The website's organisers say they were given the footage, which they say comes from cameras on US Apache helicopters. They say they decrypted it, but would not reveal who gave it to them. The WikiLeaks site campaigns for freedom of information and posts leaked documents online. So far there has been no official Pentagon response. However, Reuters and the Associated Press have quoted unnamed US military officials as confirming the video was genuine. High-quality video The video, released on Monday, is of high quality and appears to be authentic, the BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says.
It is accompanied by a recording of the pilots' radio transmissions and those of US troops on the ground. The video shows a street in Baghdad and a group of about eight people, whom the helicopter pilots identify as armed insurgents. 'Hostile force' Video shows deaths of two Reuters journalists in Iraq in 2007 -
U.S. Apache attack video released Footage of U.S. helicopter attack on two Reuters photojournalists put on WikiLeaksVideo shows Saeed Cmagh surviving initial strafing but dying during rescue effortU.S. military spokesman: Copter crew had no knowledge, evidence of journalists thereNamir Noor-Eldeen also died in July 2007 air strike in Baghdad Washington (CNN) -- One of two photojournalists killed in a 2007 attack by a U.S. helicopter gunship in Iraq was being rescued when the gunship's crew fired on the van to which he was being carried, according to footage posted online Monday.
Reuters photographer Saeed Cmagh survived an initial strafing by the Apache gunship's 30 mm machine gun, but he apparently died when the gunship opened fire on people attempting to get him off the sidewalk where he lay, according to the video. WikiLeaks is a site that publishes anonymously submitted documents, video and other sensitive materials. Pentagon documents on the investigation (pdf) PROOF that CNN is a CONTROLLED BY PENTAGON, a PSYOP for CIA, PRO. Bc.com Video Player. Video Appears to Show U.S. Forces Firing on Unarmed Suspects in.
By Chad Pergram, and Justin Fishel FoxNews.com The investigative organization WikiLeaks on Monday released military video of what it describes as three incidents of an "indiscriminate slaying" by U.S. forces near Baghdad on July 12, 2007. WikiLeaks says the encounters killed as many as 25 civilians, including two Reuters journalists. The U.S. military said in a statement at the time that a total of 11 people died in the strikes conducted by U.S. and Iraqi forces, including two Reuters employees. The video, obtained by WikiLeaks, is shot from two Apache helicopters on patrol in Iraq. The military contends that the U.S. followed the appropriate "Rules of Engagement" for these episodes. "There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force," said multinational forces spokesman Lt. The video shows military personnel aboard the Apaches indicating they spot the suspects toting several AK-47s and several RPG's.
"Keep shooting! "Nice! " Al Jazeera English - LISTENING POST - Trading coverage for acces. This week on The Listening Post: Wikileaks releases shocking military footage from the battlefields of Iraq and in Israel, a new TV drama is attracting both audiences and ethics debates. On April 5, a grainy black and white video was posted online by the whistleblower's site Wikileaks. The video immediately began racking up viewing numbers and set off a storm in the blogosphere.
The footage had been filmed on board a US helicopter in 2007 during an encounter outside Baghdad and showed US soldiers firing at and killing 16 Iraqis, two of whom were journalists with Reuters. It was not just the action on the tape that set the blogosphere alight - the muted response of American TV networks to the footage caused uproar as well. In our News Divide this week, we examine this explosive piece of footage and analyse why - even in the face of such damning footage - the media still trades coverage for access to war zones.
There is a new hit TV series in Israel called Hahatufim or Kidnapped.
HelpBradley Manning. Savebradley. Hubschrauberangriff: Verteidigungsminister der USA nimmt Soldate. Ein Anfang April veröffentlichtes Militärvideo, das den Angriff amerikanischer Hubschrauber auf vermeintlich unbewaffnete Zivilisten im Irak zeigt, sorgte weltweit für Aufsehen. US-Verteidigungsminister Robert Gates glaubt nicht, dass die Aufnahmen dem Ansehen von Amerika schaden werden. Ein Anfang April veröffentlichtes Militärvideo, das den Angriff amerikanischer Hubschrauber auf vermeintlich unbewaffnete Zivilisten im Irak zeigt, sorgte weltweit für Aufsehen.Besonders schockiert zeigte sich die Öffentlichkeit an der scheinbaren Emotionlosigkeit, mit der die Soldaten vorgingen. US-Verteidigungsminister Robert Gates nahm nun Stellung zu den Anschuldigungen.
Die Soldaten seien in einer Gefechtssituation gewesen und hätten in Sekundenbruchteilen entscheiden müssen. Eine erneuerte Untersuchung des Vorfalls schließt Gates aus, dem Us-Sender ABc sagte er "Wir haben es sehr gründlich untersuct. " Wikileaks founder reflects on Apache helicopter video. The mainstream media ignored important additional research related to the video of a U.S. Apache helicopter shooting civilians in Iraq that was leaked to the Wikileaks Web site, according to its founder and editor, Julian Assange. Assange spoke on Friday at the Center for Investigative Journalism at City University in London, marking one of his few public appearances since Wikileaks published the video, in which up to a dozen civilians were killed, including two Reuters news service employees.
Assange said he is avoiding travel to the U.S. due to concerns that he could potentially be subject to a subpoena. Wikileaks released the Apache video on April 5, marking another extraordinary scoop for the four-year-old site, which publishes secret documents and information after being vetted by the site. The video was taken on board the Apache during a July 2007 mission in which the pilots' conversation can be heard. To continue reading, register here to become an Insider It's FREE to join. 'Collateral Murder?'May 30, 2010Colin HeilbutCM501 Term Paper. How to Show "Collateral Murder" Outside in Public. World Can't Wait | August 9, 2010 Get in touch with us if you need a DVD copy of Collateral Murder.
We are distributing copies of the video along with the Afghan War Diary documents. Contact us. Report from the Bay Area (also see Collateral Eye Opening…): Our team set up just after dark on Shattuck Avenue, outside a closed store, and started letting passersby know they could watch this video with us. You can see a few minutes of our street screening last night (last week too) here.
First, there was no predicting which “types of people” would stop and stay to watch the Wikileaks video. We had to run to make more fliers, as every time we re-started the DVD new people would cruise up and stop. Some passersby walked by slowly, stopping just long enough to see what we were doing – but then as they kept going they’d start talking about it. We didn’t pay much attention to people who didn’t bother to even look or stop. Canopy-less Corner Cinema . . . Nederlander nauw betrokken bij lekken aanvalsvideo. News Desk: Video: WikiLeaks’ Media Insurgency.