Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings

linguizic writes "Today Wikileaks released a video of the US military firing large caliber weapons into a crowd that included a photojournalist and a driver for Reuters, and at a van containing two children who were involved in a rescue. Wikileaks maintains that this video was covered up by the US military when Reuters asked for an official investigation. This is the same video that has supposedly made the editors of Wikileaks a target of the State Department and/or the CIA, as was discussed a couple weeks ago." Needless to say, this video is probably not work safe (language and violence), and not for the faint of heart.

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Re:How are we supposed to understand this?

[Knara]

Ah yes, the eternal maxim of scandalous reporting: Crowds fired upon are always "unarmed civilians". With no real context to the larger situation going on, we have no idea what the real story is. If I'm in a gunship and a guy in a crowd of civilians has a stinger (or the like), the people in that crowd are about to have a really bad day. Sucks, but that's life.

Recall the (reoccurring) stories every time the Israelis and Palestinians go at it, with instantaneous stories about how the Israelis are targeting civilians and UN buildings. Of course, after things settle down there's some page 19 story about how those buildings were being used as cover for combatants, but no one has any vested interest in showing that the Palestinians military forces aren't all valiant freedom fighters.

Not saying the US military are angels, but there's no ad dollars in "US military does good job in bad situation" headlines.