WikiLeaks Video of US Military Killing Innocent Civilians in Iraq
Wikileaks Video of Iraqi Civilian Deaths
Watching this video will ruin your day. What it shows is the US military killing two journalists, several Iraqis and shooting two children on July 12, 2007.
While it appears that a couple of men have weapons, they appear to be just talking to one another and are not engaging in combat whatsoever.
Two of the men killed are Reuters photo journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his 40-year-old driver and assistant Saeed Chmagh.
Wikileaks Video of Iraqi Civilian Deaths Part 1
Wikileaks Video of Iraqi Civilian Deaths Part 2
When the US military starts Namir is talking on the phone and it appears that his camera is mistaken as a weapon.
The military investigated the shooting and determined that the soldiers did nothing wrong. You be the judge.
At one point the US military personnel appear to be enjoying themselves and laugh when a tank run over an Iraqi body.
The video was published today by Wikileaks on Collateral Murder.
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Additional reporting at the time of the killings
- Guardian Reuters staff killed in Iraq by Jemima Kiss (July 12, 2007)
- New York Times 2 Iraqi Journalists Killed as U.S. Forces Clash With Militias by Alissa J. Rubin (July 12, 2007)
- Reuters Reuters seeks US probe into killing of Iraqi staff (July 16, 2007)
- BBC News Baghdad diary: Journalists as targets by Andrew North (July 17, 2007)
- British Journal of Photography Photographer killed in Iraq (July 18, 2007)
- New York Times Leaked U.S. Video Shows Iraq Deaths, Including Reuters Staff Reuters (April 5, 2010)
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L.S.
As said before: with ‘friends’ like these, one doesn’t need enemies…
And it’s always called ‘friendly fire’…
Quote from 2005: ”Recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Eason Jordan, a CNN executive, told a panel that the U.S. military deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq.
He said he “knew of about 12 journalistswho had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy,” said Rep. Barney Frank (Dem) from Massachusetts who was on the panel with Jordan. – [snip - link below]
The BBC’s chief news-correspondent Kate Adie became one of the best-known faces on television for her reporting from the major wars of recent years. They include the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone.”
When Kate Adie at that time also correctly criticized Blair’s BBC, concerning the spreading of war propaganda, she was fired. The BBC broadcasted only two percent of dissent concerning the war in Iraq, which was lower than ABC in the US. – Some journalists are killers too! – Google – Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yhdhpex
The Adie-interview below however was conducted long before that, and in it Kate Adie already at that time said to know that the Pentagon etc. killed journalists in Iraq which did not follow the official american propaganda line; like Adie wasn’t willing to do anymore.
In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said the Pentagon had threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, and – questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions – a senior Pentagon officer had said: “Who cares.. ..They’ve been warned.”
According to Ms. Adie: “The Americans… and I’ve been talking to the Pentagon …take the attitude which is entirely hostile to the free spread of information. I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if uplinks – that is the television signals out of… Bhagdad, for example – were detected by any planes … electronic media… mediums, of the military above Bhagdad…they’d be fired down on. Even if they were journalists.”
More at Granma – Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y8apu58
Any doubts? Look at this: “US: Secret strategy document orders: ‘neutralize’ all resistance.” – Feb 9, 2006 – Url.: http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/02-09-06/discussion.cgi.39.html
Or this war machine madness – “English MPs leaked Bush plan to bomb al-Jazeera.” – Url.:
http://www.beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/01/3649.shtml
It’s the totalitarian position: “You’re either for us, or you’re for the terrorists.” as Bush said.
And those who dared criticize are nearly all dead or silenced, ‘neutralized’ in any other way.
Real journalists more than ever are a with extinction threatened species.
But treacherous propagandists keep selling the massacres.
HR
WIKILEAKS IS A MOSSAD & CIA CYBER-WARFARE TRAP
Henk Ruyssenaars
Is There a War on Wikileaks?
April 8th 2010 – On March 29th, Steven Aftergood wrote that “WikiLeaks.org, which publishes confidential documents online, says that it is being harassed by U.S. military and intelligence agencies because of its disclosures of restricted information, including the forthcoming release of a classified U.S. military video of an air strike in Afghanistan that produced civilian casualties. But those claims are disputed and can hardly be taken at face value.” – [end quote]*
And yes, personally I think – and this is based on more than 40 years as an independent correspondent – that Steven Aftergood is totally right. As far as I can see it Wikileaks is a Mossad/CIA trap. A way of getting at the IP’s – the Internet addresses, names etc. of the ‘leakers’ to this site. And then it’s easy to pick up those ‘dissidents’ everywhere.
To make up your own mind, read for instance this article about Wikileaks and its nefarious dealings.
“Suspicions that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations.”
More at Url.: http://forpressfound.livejournal.com/35479.html
HR