Posted on 04/07/2010 5:51:15 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
WikiLeaks, the self-proclaimed "whistle-blowing" investigative Web site, released a classified military video Monday that it says shows the "indiscriminate slaying" of innocent Iraqis. Two days later, questions linger about just how much of the story WikiLeaks decided to tell.
At a press conference in Washington, D.C., WikiLeaks accused U.S. soldiers of killing 25 civilians, including two Reuters journalists, during a July 12, 2007, attack in New Baghdad. The Web site titled the video "Collateral Murder," and said the killings represented "another day at the office" for the U.S. Army.
The military has always maintained the attacks near Baghdad were justified, saying investigations conducted after the incident showed 11 people were killed during a "continuation of hostile activity." The military also admits two misidentified Reuters cameramen were among the dead.
WikiLeaks said on Monday the video taken from an Army helicopter shows the men were walking through a courtyard and did nothing to provoke the attack. Their representatives said when the military mistook cameras for weapons, U.S. personnel killed everyone in sight and have attempted to cover up the murders ever since.
The problem, according to many who have viewed the video, is that WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying.
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Bravo to Fox News for digging this up.
Looked like a perfectly good shooting to me. Dead jihadi bump.
Here's a little piece of advice. If you are in Iraq and you hear helicopters, don't stand next to the guy with the RPG.
My understanding is that these “reporters” were embedded with the enemy who had been and were staging an attack on our troops.
Right on!
Good shooting. Just a thought, has wikileaks done any work on trying to dig up information on Obama’s past? Didn’t think so
Good shooting for the good guys! Two Reuters “journalists” won’t be filing any more propaganda for Bin Laden
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MSNBC owes our servicemen a BIG apology.
Dont hold your breath.
There is certainly some "history" here.
The media often use native Iraqi as stringers. Many of them have been found to sympathize with Hussein's regime or with the jihadis. Accordingly, they serve as propagandists against the U.S. and the military.
The media, of course, isn't unhappy with such behavior. Reuters among them.
"Embed" with the enemy -- share their risks.
Let me see. You are in a combat zone, where ground forces have requested air-to-ground support and a helicopter shows up! They identify a group of non-American forces with weapons and they engage (with beautiful, justified deadly force) and some people who were with the bad guys, but did not have a weapon were also killed. Did I get this right?
So, here is my suggestion: don’t hang out with bad guys shooting at the good guys! It’s like hanging with friends at a crack house, when the cops show up, expect to be arrested, even if you were just “visiting” friends! And if your “friends” start shooting at the cops, expect that you will be considered and treated as one of the “bad guys” until the shooting ends!
War is hell.
Just to think, we used to execute traitors in times of war. Of course Congress has not declared war since WWII. I wonder why?
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