WikiLeaks shows reporter killings in Iraq - RT 100406

** FULL LENGTH WikiLeaks video with subtitle in English:
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** WikiLeaks Report: WikiLeaks report: http://collateralmurder.com/Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com
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WikiLeaks shows reporter killings in Iraq
06 April, 2010, 05:52
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?
At the time of its founding in 2007, WikiLeaks focused on exposing repressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc and the Middle East. On April 5, however, in an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, WikiLeaks released a video that implicates the United States military in a murder.
The video has raised new questions about rules of engagement in battle, liability of soldiers for their actions and the mindset of US soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The video, allegedly taken from inside an Apache helicopter flying over Baghdad on July 12, 2007, shows the shooting deaths of two Reuters journalists, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen while audio reveals that the soldiers mistook the cameras the journalists were carrying for AK-47s.
"The soldiers are treating war like a video game," said RTs Kristine Frazao, who attended the video release and watched the footage.
The soldiers in the helicopter were absolved of responsibility in the attacks, which resulted in the deaths of around a dozen people, by a military court, which ruled the soldiers acted under the rules of engagement.
Having read the rules, if you want to bend them or twist them, you can do that, said co-founder and editor of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. And then its up to a military court to decide if they have been broken or not."
You can see that the internal military processes do not work to bring justice or accountability," added Assange. What we have seen is that it is very, very rare for US soldiers to be prosecuted. In previous cases where there has been prosecution, the media exposed the moral abuse and there was a political response to push for prosecution.
WikLeaks stated aim has been to give journalists and whistleblowers a safe place to expose classified documents anonymously, but in this case, the organization seems to be going further, to demand justice for these journalists.
What keeps people honest is we understand how the world actually works. The first step is to get information out into the real world and the second step is to comment on it and to think about it, but we need sources that can get restricted information out to the public, said Assange.
Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 more than 100 journalists have died in the country.

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[FlameExecutioner]

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[tomcat624u]

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[JCamwell]

Thats what happens when you hang around armed Taliban, you idiots, you get lit up

[77MRVIC]

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[CanijAsa]

Fuck America Fuck Israel !!!

[ViktorVaughan]

@coldplay1644 shut up you delluded fucking idiot. Behind enemy lines? Baghdad is a thriving city, a city no different to others. And they're reporters, ever thought they might be there to report something, like say THE NEWS?

[L4ss]

If you watch the WHOLE video you can see AK s and RPG.This is just shitty BS Russian propaganda!

[mickystormont]

very sad all the equipment on that apache and he still cant see its a camera sherrif jon brunell would have

[GreenBlueClouds]

This constantly happens.

[Tacosaretastey]

People don't relize that the reason they say "look at all hose dead bastards" and "just pick up a weapon" because when you work in the military you have to do anything to get your moral up. I promise that the ones on the other side make such comments when they kill us forces. We just don't know about it because he media over there is completely different and were not exposed to that.

[Browuning]

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