Collateral Murder

Overview

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.


http://collateralmurder.com/

I read some of the articles by Reuters and NYT and don't find compelling evidence that it wasn't anything more than "fog of war" . . . which is tragic. Mistaking camera equipment for an RPG is plausible.

if you are not already farming your backyard for ALL of your nutritional needs and biking to every destination.....


you have no right to bi#$tch about this!

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Im doing more than that.

Why do you think people are not allowed to have an opinion ?
Just curious not bi#$ing.

I can agree a large camera could be mistaken for a weapon.

The scandal is in the cover up of the event, not just the event itself.

I'm not sure what the "cover up" angle is. The Reuters story indicated that in 2007, they were provided with the results of the investigation, which included the mistaken targeting of the journalist.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/04/wikileaks-reax.html

fallows:

I can't pretend to know the full truth or circumstances of this. But at face value it is the most damaging documentation of abuse since the Abu Ghraib prison-torture photos. As you watch, imagine the reaction in the US if the people on the ground had been Americans and the people on the machine guns had been Iraqi, Russian, Chinese, or any other nationality. As with Abu Ghraib, and again assuming this is what it seems to be, the temptation will be to blame the operations-level people who were, in this case, chuckling as they mowed people down. That's not where the real responsibility lies.