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This video contains footage NOT SEEN in wikileaks 17 minute version. IF YOU WANT CONTEXT WATCH THIS ONE.

A friend of mine recently posted this to his Facebook (I know, I'm drawing from the bastion of unreliable sources here), and I want very badly to respond, but what I want to say I can't back up with personal experience or knowledge of any reliable sort. That's why I'm asking about these things here. Before reading my questions and answering them, please watch the video so you understand why I want to ask these questions. Ok, now that you've watched it: First, it seems to me that any war correspondent worth his salt would know the dangers of going...

Calling it a case of "collateral murder," the WikiLeaks Web site today released harrowing until-now secret video of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 repeatedly opening fire on a group of men that included a Reuters photographer and his driver -- and then on a van that stopped to rescue one of the wounded men. None of the members of the group were taking hostile action, contrary to the Pentagon's initial cover story; they were milling about on a street corner. One man was evidently carrying a gun, though that was and is hardly an uncommon occurrence...