** FULL LENGTH WikiLeaks video with subtitle in English: www.youtube.com ** WikiLeaks Report: WikiLeaks report: collateralmurder.com 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 ** To download (any video on YouTube), use the free software “RealPlayer SP” www.real.com rt.com rt.com WikiLeaks shows reporter killings in Iraq 06 April, 2010, 05:52 WikiLeaks has released a video taken from a US Apache helicopter showing the murder of two Reuters journalists in Iraq in 2007. Will there be any repercussions for the US? At the time of its founding in 2007, WikiLeaks focused on exposing repressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc and the Middle East. On April 5, however, in an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, WikiLeaks released a video that implicates the …
@palendromedary1
I haven’t been there. Like I have said time and again; Canada is NOT in Iraq.
War does not make money in the long run; this war has cost the US trillions of dollars; partly what caused the deficit.
If we pulled out; we would have left them vulnerable to fall back into the darkness they were plagued in; this is a bigger waste of life than anything else.
I am not speaking from superiority….you can think we ‘shouldn’t’ have gone all you want; we did, and no wishful thinking
@palendromedary1 can change that. Deal with it. The US went there; the only thing they can do now is find a way to resolve it; and letting armed insurgents kill in crowded streets is not the answer. Letting suicide bombers blow up hundreds is not the answer. Leaving them in ruin and unable to defend themselves is not the answer. Come up with a reasonable theory; or just stay out of it.
@palendromedary1 So being a paranoid hippy on the net is all you can do? Guess that shows your lack of understanding in both politics and war.
If you oppose terrorism; why would you suggest withdrawing and letting terrorism grow? Do you not oppose mass death?
@palendromedary1
I am doing something about it. I serve in the Canadian Forces; and am going to be helping train the next batch of troops heading to Afghanistan. I do not kill babies; and neither do US soldiers. Get that through your drug fried head already!
@palendromedary1 “I’m not implying, of course, that YOU have killed babies…or anyone for that matter…but it is indisputable that US (Canadian, etc) forces have killed quite a few….thousands…and our continued folly over there will continue to murder many more babies”
“…Why aren’t you out in Iraq killing more babies…”
…and I’m the one contradicting myself here? Wow!
What about the bombs insurgents are strapping to children and babies? Why is this acceptable to you?
@palendromedary1 why is it that people are so apt to target the US for causing a handful of civilian deaths due to collateral damage; and always suggest leaving; allowing those to continue mass murdering innocent women and children intentionally?
@palendromedary1 What about the Canadian journalist Michelle Lang killed by Taliban insurgents? Why are you not standing against this? Why is her death not worth the attention of these reporters to you? What about the children in school when the Taliban blew it up? What about the University bombings from them? The 11 year old boy who’s throat was slit infront of his father? The 17 year old girl stoned to death? Why do you defend these people, and attack us? You don’t care about human rights!
@palendromedary1 I stand against rape, murder and excessive and needless violence and death in war more than you do; that’s why I am involved, making sure that doesn’t happen; as are 99.9% of all soldiers, Canadian, American, or any nation. I stand against terrorism; and against them murdering innocent people; and if my own troops commit acts like this; I report it; like I am legally bound to do. There is a law in the Code of Service Discipline that makes me refuse unlawful commands.
@palendromedary1 But since you mention Hitler; what about the Allied troops that killed French citizens in WWII? What about the bombing of German cities? Do these illegal war acts condemn our entire war to stop Hitler? War crimes do occur yes; but they are not military policy; they are personal actions; and are NOT acceptable behavior in any military, including the USA.
@palendromedary1 And so do slandering Australians that accuse people of guilt based on allegations. The rape charges are nothing more than a taste of his own medicine for him. If you say US soldiers are baby killers; then you are saying Julian Assange is a rapist!
@xFogxofxWarx So why is it that you can dismiss all of the murders of civilians and children that the US has done in this illegal war by shrugging it off as “just a war” and shit happens but you don’t recognize the same thing when “they” commit atrocities?
@xFogxofxWarx Under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is a party, a nation’s use of force is authorized under only two circumstances: in individual or collective self-defense, as outlined in Article 51, or pursuant to a Security Council resolution, as outlined in Article 42. Since it was not directly attacked by Iraq the United States did not have an obvious right to self-defense. hrcr.o r g/hottopics/Iraq.html
@xFogxofxWarx “…the legal case for unilateral pre-emptive action against Iraq is weak. The failure, despite several attempts, to gain a further Security Council resolution authorising the use of force means that an attack will breach international law.” “The use of force has not been authorised by the Security Council. “smh.c o m.au/articles/2003/03/18/1047749768285.html
@xFogxofxWarx ” .. to enter a war based on this expectation sees us revert to the “just war” theory. In doing so, we fall into precisely the trap the United Nations was established to avoid. The decision to wage a just war is based upon an appeal to dangerously subjective standards of morality and the belligerents’ conviction that their cause is right. After two world wars, the dangers of this approach are obvious. Australia will be better served by adherence to the international rule of law.”
@xFogxofxWarx Everything that I post is my “opinion”..as I assume you are expressing your “opinion”. And my opinions are reflected in countless other sources and also appear to be popularly held opinions. And it is my “opinion”, although it has also been reported in many other sources, that our troops have “murdered” a lot of children and civilians in the course of their “war”. They like to call them “collateral damage”. .but it doesn’t fool the rest of us who see what has been done in our name.
@xFogxofxWarx And, as the wikileaks papers have shown…as well as other sources..it has been way more than just a handful of children. The next video that is to be released will show that in this one setting about 80 children were murdered and 50 or so other civilians by the US. And these are just the tip of the iceberg. Soldiers returning from Iraq have already stated that it is not just isolated occurrences (murdering civilians) but it was more of a policy mandate by higher ups.
@xFogxofxWarx “War crimes do occur yes; but they are not military policy; they are personal actions” So was what the Nazis did war crimes? What Hitler did..war crimes? So too can Bush and his regime..including the military generals all be held accountable for committing war crimes. And, yes, I’d say that we committed war crimes when we fire-bombed Germany and Japan..and especially for dropping the A-bomb..twice. We purposely targeted civilians. This was a war crime.
@xFogxofxWarx “It is claimed that the invasion was fully legal because authorization was implied by the United Nations Security Council. International legal experts, including the International Commission of Jurists, a group of 31 leading Canadian law professors, and the U.S.-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, have denounced both of these rationales.” en.wikipedia.o r g/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq#Legality_of_invasion
@xFogxofxWarx “On Thursday November 20, 2003, an article published in the Guardian alleged that Richard Perle, a senior member of the administration’s Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, conceded that the invasion was illegal but still justified.” “…the Dutch commission concluded that the 2003 invasion violated international law.”
@xFogxofxWarx “317 teachers of law from 87 law schools around the country have denounced the Bush administration’s plans for war with Iraq, explaining that a US war against a country that has not attacked the United States would itself be an unlawful act, in defiance of America’s treaty obligations, and in violation of US and international law.”…the-rule-of-law.c o m/
@xFogxofxWarx “It’s simple and straightforward. There are only two legal justifications for attacking another country: self-defence, or if the Security Council authorises you to do so. It is perfectly plain that none of the Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq authorised armed intervention. It’s possible to cobble together what looks like a legal argument, but the real test of any legal argument is whether a court would accept that argument.” robincmiller.c o m/art-iraq/b58.htm
AMERICAN ASSHOLES, Monkeys with big guns
This is how mentally unstable hillbillies ;Liberate; countries,They arrive in Iraq on there rambo buzzes with there trigger happy fingers already on the trigger waiting for the first Man,Women or child to walk by so they can murder them,There bloodthirsty sadistic Animals,They Murdered 1.1 Million people who they promised to help,They tortured & humiliated people in Abu Ghraib,Raped young children & Murdered them & there famillies,Yet they still have the Audacity to call others the Terrorists.
@smallyb2009 yes this is a warcrime they fire on people helping, unbelievable why no public outcry ?
this video is so fuckin edited…there are people in that crowd with RPG’s and AK’s….fuck all of them..