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 collateralmurder.com
fkin capitalist pigs
I absolutely love when people see one bias video.. know nothing about a war except what bias media tells them and think they can make generalerizations about wars, soldiers and their countries. If you honestly believe that every American soldier is evil, then i have nothing to say to you.. but i am glad u base ur opinion off of a wikileak video who edits videos and sounds to make the video more appealing to the viewer in order to get more website traffic.
how about you take the time and see what the taliban did to their people or what saddam hussein did to his.. and ask the new generation of afghanis and iraqi if they enjoy their freedom, security, and charity that the Americans have provided to them. I went to Haiti after the earthquake and played with Haitian Orghans and donated toys and money and food and water, sometimes out of my own pocket.. ask the Afghan soldier i played pool with yesterday if he enjoys his new life..
motherfuckin dickless bastard americans u fuckerz an afghan 14yr old kid can fuck u up
@Lacky143 At least you got your name right, lacky. Yes, let’s ask the uncle Tom afghans that have been given sweets and incentive to suck American cock what they think. How about asking all the people you’ve killed.
@allankay12 – of course not ALL Americans think Canadians live in igloos…you’re obviously taking my comments literally. The running joke in Canada is that Americans think we live in igloos – and the reason? Well, because our native people (Inuit) do actually build igloos and use them when out hunting in the Arctic. Just Google this and you’ll see plenty of posts that supports the reference I’ve made.
@Lacky143 I must say I almost entirely agree with what you write. I agree that in terms of liberation most Afghans and Iraqis would say that they enjoy their new found freedom, and I fully understand that this is in a war zone and that there is no black and white and that no generalizations can be made, but I think the disturbing point about this video is the lack of regard shown to human life and the way the soldiers talk, laugh, cheer etc and the fact they are just so blood thirsty . . . fair?
@allankay12 – Like I said earlier, the reference to the igloo comment is true, and just because YOU’VE never heard it or thought it doesn’t change things. Not all Americans think this (obviously) and not all Canadians think Americans think this, but Google the reference and you’ll see how both sides like to poke fun. And yes we have a higher tax rate but that’s because we have a lot of benefits too. And what exactly do you think “our style of health care” is? Don’t speak of what you don’t know.
@MJPKENT fuck him, he’s a traitor to every American servicemen and servicewomen
You have 2 men carrying shoulder strapped objects, infront of a group of men who actually were holding assault rifles. Think they’re wrong for assuming it’s a weapon? Maybe if there wasn’t a group of 5 guys with rifles, it wouldn’t have happened
And it’s not like the Apache was randomly looking through the city. If you read the full report and listen to the video from any point of military experience, the group was in the route of the humvee’s route, which is why the Apache was up in the first place reporting what’s in the path and clearing the way. You have american ground forces en-route, and you see a group of 5 guys with rifles and 2 guys with shoulder strapped objects in the path of your soldiers..hmmm I think they did right
@allankay12 – I have no “misconceptions” about Americans – I have my opinions based on my experience. I’ve traveled extensively in the US – from Alaska to FL & NY to CA and many places in between so my OPINIONS are based on my PERSONAL experience. I’ve met my share of stupid/smart people – as a matter of fact – I’m married to an American – and the family was quite ignorant about Canadians when I first met them. Never mind Canada – some have never even left their state to see their own country!
@TheSouthJersey people who want world peace think he is a hero. people who want america to rule the world think he is a traitor. it just depends on what kind of life you want on planet earth.
@austensmart When Sunnis or anyone suspected of opposing the occupation is found tortured and with drill holes in their head, you call that freedom. When the journo who threw shoes at Bush was tortured & got 3 years in prison. When the US handpicks who can stand for election and who the prime minister is..when they US pays for fake stories to be printed in papers/tv & when they bribe Iraqi officials to cover up atrocities, that’s freedom is it? Over 1 million dead, over 4 million refugees
@TheSouthJersey Yeah, we should believe an American military report. Because we know they don’t lie!
Oh..14 yr old girl found raped, murdered and set alight along with her family – American report: Sectarian violence
Initial US military report for this incident: No idea how the Reuters guys died. They also initially claimed they had no idea how the kids had been hurt and said it must have been in the cross fire. Yes, of course the US military aren’t lying cover up bastards are they.
Thank God for Wikileaks.
God bless America. Ermmm… (*_*)
HAHA! Fuck you OBAMA!!! So now that the clips are out you might wanna bring the troops back now huh? YOU AND YOUR OTHER FRIENDS’ WORKS ARE BEING EXPOSED. Ahh nevermind i know you guys are going to take the exposer down and continue the war. Just wait Obama just wait YOU’LL BE PUNISHED SOON.
What the fuck?
@Damien558 sorry but I just don’t see what your post has to do with my comment. I was talking about the lack of regard for human life on behalf of the soldiers.
I should also make it clear that a) I am not American and B) I never supported the regime in Iraq.
Thanks
I’m not ashamed to be AMERICAN! I’m ASHAMED that as a law abiding American citizen. That I allow our government to disgrace HUMANITY! It’s time for REVOLUTION !……It’s time for our fat wealthy American families who let the lower and lower middle class fight to get there children’s hands dirty!.
Murder
Wow… That’s fucked up!
1st: They all look like terrorists.
2nd: They are carrying something that looks like an RPG and then they point it on a Bradley while hiding behind a wall.
3rd: I do not consider them innocent civilians. Reporters are individuals that deliberately put themselves in danger in order to earn good money out the captured misery of others. No war, no misery, no reporter. (this by the way works both ways)
@sopoulos
1: What the fuck does a terroist look like?
2. Most of them have nothing in their hands, apart from the camera man, and even then the camera still bears no remsemblence to an RPG
3. Would you consider yourself not an innocent civilian if you were gunned down in iraq while csimply trying to bring people news about the war going on in their country?
@austensmart they would have taken the weapons and used them again did you not hear the pilot he said they were picking up the weapons