Wikileaks leaked video of Civilians killed in Baghdad - Full video

Please note: This is a full uncut version of the video primarily intended for research purposes. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrf... for a short and concise version with added context.

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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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[dwhitford1234]

The guy with the RPG was aiming it at the helicopter... they totally had the right to take him out.

As for the other people, they definitely SHOULDN'T have shot until they saw some sort of threat. Having guns isn't a threat. Aiming the guns at you is...

[Michael Selwood]

You people are idiots. This is war. Don't like it? go and do something, you arrogant pricks.

[Kim Mercuri]

those two in the car are children is it alright to kill them as well? you people make me sick

[YouAreAllMaggots]

Because the world isn't a utopia, human beings are only animals like every other living thing. Value of life is a moral that is only a human concept. It's not really all that fucked up, it's a cleaner death than most other animals get. The fish being shut between the jaws of a bear, the gazelle being ripped up by a pack of lions, or the simple dying rat being swarmed by ants and dying in pain you can't even comprehend.

[SpbMann83]

cause some of us are not humans



[odinsm79]

Es sind immer die Zivilisten,die als erstes dran glauben müssen.Klar ist natürlich auch,das die Soldaten nicht zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden.Leider.Es kann doch nicht sein,das die auf Verdacht die Leute abknallen.Wenn Sie nichtmal n Teleobjektiv mit ner AK vergleichen können sind Sie sowieso im falschen Beruf.Sowas wird bei denen als Kollateralschaden abgetan.Traurig.Aber jeder Krieg ist das wohl.

Es wird Zeit,das diese Sch...endlich aufhört.Die Amis gießen ja noch Feuer ins Benzin.

[Mr13LuCiFeR]

So many armchair attorneys on here. It's warfare and it comes at a price.

[DirtyYogurt]

Look up the Al-Anfal Campaign. Generally speaking, genocide is bad. We tend to hate the fact that the holocaust was a thing, but when it comes to the Kurds in Iraq everyone flips the script and starts arguing that we should have minded our own business. It's not like 1989 came around and Hussein just decided to start leaving the Kurds alone after 3 years of genocide.

[xXLoveHatersxX937]

oh wow and americans call israel killers

[mindzii8]

"we've got one wounded child" "Ahh, damn, oh well" That's just do fucked up... Gets me heated.

[mindzii8]

This disgusts me. Fuck war. Why must we live in a world like this? :(