SHOCKING: Top secret video shows US helicopter killing civilians in Iraq

PRESS TV : New video shows US choppers mowing down Iraqis in 2007
A new footage of a classified US military video showing the killing of a dozen civilians in Baghdad in 2007 by helicopter gunships has been released.

The secret video, released by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks, shows US air crew hunting civilians in the streets of the Iraqi capital purportedly mistaking them for 'insurgents.'

US military service members laughed and cursed at their victims that included Reuters photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, who appear unarmed.

The footage shows US forces repeatedly firing on a group of civilians and then on a van that stopped to rescue one of the wounded.

The US military says the killings were in line with the law of armed conflict and its own 'rules of engagement.'

The video, shot from one of the two striking Apache helicopters, was obtained by Wikileaks despite the US Defense Department's blocking of an earlier attempt by Reuters to get hold of the footage via the Freedom of Information Act.

Director of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, said his institution decrypted the video for the material to become viewable.

The revelation on US military's indiscriminate killing of people in Iraq has become the latest embarrassment for the Pentagon.

It also comes after the US armed forces admitted that its special forces attempted to cover up the killing of three Afghan women, in a raid in February, by removing the bullets out of their bodies.

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[xXsnowrider11Xx]

Look at these dickhead American soldiers thinking they r on call of duty mw2 or something. Stupid fucks needa get blasted by a 30 mm cannon themselves and see how it feels.

[USisfuckedup]

The REAL TERRORIST is AMERICA.

They invade.

They find excuses to remain there for as long as possible.

During the process, they are GUN HAPPY (as usual), and kill innocent people.

When the situation is no longer teneable, and it appears to be getting too expensive to fight a losing battle........America pulls out, saying has "done" its job and achieved its "objectives".

.....and leave that nation even SHITTIER and as violent as before.

[marivirgin1]

Apparently mistook?!! looks more like he is trying his machine gun. 

[annie46664]

@Samyaza69 ~ You ARE amongst those LOWEST pieces of SH*T on this planet!!! The sooner our precious planet is RID OF YOU & THE LIKES OF YOU, the better!

I hope that you ALL end up being shipped to a tent city at the Antarctic ~ where you can kill & eat each other on demand and/or command or whatever. You & the likes of you are DIGRACEFUL & a sheer embarrassment to humanity.

SHAME OF YOU! $CUM of the Earth!!

Now the sooner you're shipped off to Antarctica, the better. :)

~South Africa~

[annie46664]

ABSOLUTELY APALLING! DISGRACEFUL ~ DISGUSTING and nowhere remotely humane.

I so hope and pray that those responsible within the helicopter, suffer with a chronic conscience for the rest of their lives on Earth & then thereafter too ~ they deserve that & then of course, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Silverstein, Giuliani, Blair, Mossad & EVERY SINGLE perpetrator of this TOTALLY UNCALLED for & UNNECESSARY WAR on INNOCENT PEOPLE, based on their VERY OWN INSIDE 911 JOB, suffer the SAME WAY!

SA

[CommonAndroid]

@Samyaza69 You are promoting racism and genocide?  Hey Youtube, we got our new Hitler. Honestly, why would anybody insist this? You can't generalize a whole race with your only reasoning being "dark age scums".

Sounds like somebody just walked out of 7th Grade Social Studies.....

[Samyaza69]

More muslims arab killed, better! Who cares are civlians or not? Kille'em all! Let's get rid of this dark age scums once and for good!

[hoosier3060]

@Tehui1974 The US military says that in the absence of orders... you attack. They said that countless times in Basic Training and still say it today. If you watch Crimson Tide, Gene Hackman's CPT Ramsey is the perfect example of the point I'm making.

[uldulublujumtuzusnus]

Julian, all your parents must be very proud of you, no one at all times have taken much money from the shit, by the way I like the suit you wear, it reminds me of the movie Clockwork Orange.

[TheJericho321]

JULIEN ASSANGE POWAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!

[OnyxCode]

will you decipher the OnyxCode ---> ₪