Collateral Murder
zombie bill hicks Mon, 04/05/2010 - 2:00pm
5th April 2010 10:44 EST
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
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I'm ashamed
I'm ashamed and disgusted to be an American when I see shit like this. It's obvious why any real coverage of these "wars" is being censored.
Everybody who has a Youtube site or something similar needs to download this and re-post it. This needs to show up in a Google search in a thousand locations. Make that ten thousand.
I just tried to download it and the Youtube server is "busy." I'm sure NSA will try to jam any transmission. Be diligent.
God bless Wikileaks.
Well said.
I tried to embed the video on my Facebook page and for some reason it wouldn't post. I was only able to put up the link and cut and paste the summary of the video.
My heart goes out to the families of the victims of this massacre.
no shame
One of the overriding goals of the 'powers that be' is to make Americans feel ashamed... to demonize the united States of America in order to smooth the absorption into the global government.
You have no reason to feel ashamed. You are part of the solution. You are a good reason other Americans should feel proud.
I was horrified when I saw this video early this morning, not surprised, but horrified. 9-11 is still being used as a justification to slaughter people around the globe. 9-11 Truth Now.
With you in the struggle,
Bruno
WeAreChangeLA
wacla.org
again, just another reason why we have to have change
John MITCHELL
Herblay FRANCE
bonjour,
again, just another reason why we have to change rapidly the functioning of our administrations. And have to close some of them ( CIA, NSA,IRIS ... ? ).
America despite all the evil that has been done your name, the good Americans can show the way to a better world.
Yours John
The guys in the helicopter
were TRAINED to shoot people. Once upon a time, they were little children playing in sandboxes. Same goes for the guys that trained them. Once upon a time, they were little children too.
We humans have a lot of spiritual evolving to do.
Maybe we will make it.
I hope so.
They seem to enjoy it
At one point after they are circling, you can hear them marvel at the bodies and get commended on their marksmanship. I am former military, and I know that there is a level of desnsitizing that happens in combat, but this is out of control. They are firing HUGE rounds from hundreds of yards away, and are doing it under ficticious reasoning. I failed to see ANY AK-47's in that film. This just makes me sick and sad for humans in the world that have to suffer through this.
having trouble embedding youtube
Life in Iraq Under US Occupation: Dahlia Wasfi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=colcD8UVr90
Because it was not justified, the entire Iraq war
may be considered a war crime, and every death, a murder.
This is just ONE leaked video, but the war there's been going on for YEARS now... think about it. Grotesque!!!
Way to go Bush Cheney and Neocon cabal, may you be held to account somehow, sometime, in one form or another.
Hey Robert Rice,
Try to post something on HuffPost. You have a nice knack for wording things. As an experiment, I joined and made my first comment ever over there. I used your first line above and then added.. "The US govt. lied about WMD's in Iraq and covered up what really happened on Sept. 11, including its own ties to the hijackers. May Bush, Cheney and the entire Neocon cabal be held to account for what they've done."
It was accepted. ("joltwagon")
It isn't a just a "Neocon" cabal
It's the entire Congress - both parties - that backed and continue to back - by funding - these monstrous wars based on lies. AND it is the main stream media that repeats these lies - AND it is the populace that goes along with all this.
In any event, it seems to be something systemic in the human condition - that crosses all lines of race, nationality, religion, party affiliation - political ideologies etc.
The problem with blaming one group - is that the corollary seems to be that there is some other group that is blameless - and this simply is not the case.
I can't figure out why my own friends - none of whom are neocons - and all of whom are supposedly educated - go on their merry way denying what is beyond obvious.
I think the answer is fear.
Accidental double post
please remove if possible
but you're quite right
and this truth needs repeating ... over and over
It's capitalism. The more I
It's capitalism. The more I learn about history, the more I find that to be true.
Anthony Schaffer comments on MSNBC
lead story on HuffPost
This story is the lead item on Huffington Post at this moment with over 4500 comments so far, including some 9/11 Truth comments leaking through but not enough. Get over there and support Wikileaks and make your self heard.
new vid
I am lost for words.
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Cowards
Percent of civilian deaths:
WWI -- 14%
WWII -- 67%
1989-2005 -- 90%
Anyone who joins the military in the 21st century will become a participant in the mass killing of innocent civilians. The average US soldier makes Jeffrey Dahmer look like a humanitarian. This is not meant in jest. Soldiers may not eat their victims like Mr. Dahmer, but the body count of the US military makes your average serial killer look like a common criminal.
Baby killers? You betcha. This is not "war". This is mass butchery. The "soldiers" in the video have clearly been brainwashed to take delight in the practice of mass murder. They kill humans with the relish of a sadistic child burning ants with a magnifying glass. The new "video game" style of "war" is the height of cowardice. There isn't a trace of honor in the activities of these men.
Blaming soldiers for war is a little like blaming McDonald's employees for factory farming. Most of them come from poor backgrounds and are economically blackmailed into becoming killers. So long as there are large disparities in wealth there will be a steady stream of bodies to feed the maw of the military machine. Nevertheless, I think it's important we emphasize that the soldier's profession is a despicable one. Parents need to teach this to their children. These individuals do not deserve respect but repudiation. This has nothing to do with self-defense. The heroes are on the side of the resistance.
How's that for "shock and awe"
Everyone got the picture yet? It's a big LIE! IT's all a big LIE! Wars are ALWAYS about BANK$ and WEAPON manufacturers! The US makes the most weapons, sells the most weapons, uses the most weapons and is NOT TO BE TRUSTED! Which country in this world has the most Nukes? And you are afraid of Iran? Which country has used NUKES? Which countries are most likely to use nukes in the future? This video is a mere snapshot of an epic size destruction of a country, a people, a culture, a TRAGEDY. When we are not faking terrorists we are growing them.
French national newspaper LIberation takes about misconduct
John MITCHELL
Herblay FRANCE
bonjour , thanks for the post. Our national newspaper LIberation today, Monday the 6th of April, talks only about "bavure" = blunder, misconduct.
I think the title "Collateral Murder" more appropriate. See annex °1
And how many other video tapes like this one exists ?
Yours John
Update : I have just bought the newspaper and their is not a word in the physical paper on the video. Sorry for the citizens that buy Liberation( ~130 000 printed) because they are better informed by the web site of the same newspaper !
°1 _ _ _ _
http://www.liberation.fr/monde/0101628664-la-video-d-une-bavure-americai...
Au sommaire de Libération.fr - édition du Mardi 06 avril 2010
La vidéo d'une bavure américaine à Bagdad rendue publique
Le site spécialisé Wikileaks dévoile la vidéo d'un raid d'un hélicoptère de l'armée américaine qui a provoqué la mort de deux employés de l'agence Reuters et de plusieurs autres personnes à Bagdad en 2007.>>
Le site internet Wikileaks.org, spécialisé dans la diffusion de contenus sensibles, a rendu public lundi la vidéo (visible sur YouTube) d'un raid d'un hélicoptère de l'armée américaine qui a provoqué il y a trois ans la mort de deux employés de l'agence Reuters et de plusieurs autres personnes à Bagdad.
Les images, tournées à bord de l'hélicoptère Apache, sont accompagnées de la bande son des conversations entre les pilotes de l'appareil et le contrôle au sol: ils identifient les hommes qui circulent dans une rue de Bagdad comme des insurgés armés et demandent l'autorisation d'ouvrir le feu.
Wikileaks ne précise pas comment ont été obtenues ces images spectaculaires tournées en juillet 2007, et visibles sur le site ainsi que sur Youtube.
On peut y voir un groupe d'hommes marcher dans une rue de Bagdad, parmi lesquels seront identifiés par la suite les deux employés de Reuters Namir Noor-Eldeen et Saeed Chmagh. Certains membres du groupe semblent être armés.
Les pilotes de l'Apache, qui semblent prendre la caméra d'un des employés de Reuters pour un lance-grenade RPG, affirment avoir repéré «cinq ou six individus avec des AK-47» et demandent la permission «d'ouvrir le feu», ce qu'ils obtiennent presque instantanément.
Après la fusillade, l'un des pilotes relève qu'il y a désormais «un tas de cadavres» sur place. «Regarde moi ces pourritures crevées», dit l'un. Un autre réplique: «chouette». Peu après, une camionnette s'arrête pour ramasser les morts et les blessés et est à son tour la cible des hélicoptères américains.
Deux enfants dans la camionnette sont blessés. Ils seront évacués par les soldats américains arrivés sur les lieux par la suite. Un responsable de l'armée américaine a commenté lundi auprès de l'AFP la diffusion de cette vidéo, qui selon lui «n'apporte pas d'information nouvelle, seulement des images».
«Depuis 2007, nous avons reconnu tout ce qui est dans la vidéo», a dit le responsable sous le couvert de l'anonymat. «Nous avons reconnu que le raid avait eu lieu et que deux employés de Reuters (avaient été tués)», a-t-il dit.
«Nous savons que deux enfants ont été blessés», a également dit le responsable. «Le (lance-grenade) RPG de la vidéo est réel», a-t-il toutefois ajouté. «Nous avions des insurgés et des reporters dans une zone où les forces américaines allaient tomber dans une embuscade».
«A ce moment là, nous ne pouvions pas discerner si (les employés de Reuters) portaient des caméras ou des armes», a insisté le responsable.
Dans un communiqué le rédacteur en chef de Reuters David Schlesinger a affirmé que la mort des deux employés de l'agence était «tragique et emblématique des dangers extrêmes liés à la couverture des zones de guerre». «La vidéo diffusée aujourd'hui via Wikileaks est la preuve des dangers liés au journalisme de guerre et des tragédies qui peuvent en découler», a-t-il ajouté.
WikiLeaks se présente comme une organisation non lucrative financée notamment par des défenseurs des droits de l'homme, des journalistes d'investigation, et le public.
Après la diffusion de la vidéo, la responsable aux Etats-Unis de l'organisation Reporters sans Frontières, Clothilde Le Coz, a appelé le Pentagone a faire preuve de «plus de transparence» dans cette affaire et a demandé à l'administration Obama de «montrer son respect de la justice».
Also the National Danish State Radio
have aired the story.
Praise Wiki Leaks!
Your Tax Dollars at work
Disgusting and shamefull. These soldiers are brain washed. I know because I also was a brain washed soldier. Until the military industrial complex and the Israeli - Paelstinian issues are dealt with expect disgusting things like this to continue. Thank God I never took another's life, as I don't know how I could have dealt with that, but I AND EVERY OTHER TAX PAYING AMERICAN PAID FOR WHAT WE ALL SAW IN THAT VIDEO! So in a sense I am still participating and I resent it!
Anyone who thinks that makes us safer is delusional, it just creates more "enemies" for us but the Military Industrial Complex needs enemies doesn't it?
Dutch national TV news
Dutch national television news opened all Monday's bulletins with this footage.
Who went to their beds last night without a great sadness
After viewing this video? I kept hearing John Lennons words about war and peace and love. And about how we all get to these ugly places. " a working class hero is something to be....as soon as you're born they make you feel small, by giving you no time instaed of it all. ... till the pain is so big you feel nothing at alll. ... They hurt you at home and they hit you at school, they hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.... till you're so fuckin crazy, you can't folllow their rules ... When they tortured you and scared you for twenty odd years, and then they expect you to pick a career... When you can't really function you're so full of fear! .. They keep you doped with religion and sex and tv ... And you think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still fuckin peasants as far as I can see.
There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must LEARN HOW TO SMILE AS YOU KILL !!!!..if you want to be like the folks on the hill ". War isn't over !!
And I think we must go on laughing as we love!!!
Lillyann
wondering what others think about Wayne Madsen?
he has a disturbing take on Wikileaks. Tales of CIA, Mossad connections. The Soros gang, spying(china espc.), manipulating US elections, propaganda/disinfo and hacking of perceived enemies.
I have found Madsen to be above average in credibility in the past. His intelligence past has netted him some interesting sources. What say others?
Madsen
may have picked up some disinfo that was fed to him preemptively.
Who knows. But this particular Wikileaks story looks solid as a rock.
CBC featured this tonight
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) also had this wikileaks video front-and-centre on the evening news tonight\
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/ID=1462068423