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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.
Outrage is not dead. It's just been co-opted by the tea baggers over nonsense issues..
For justice, we must go to Don Corleone
The fire order was pretty legit, he was told "We have several people with AK-47's and an RPG here, do we have permission to fire?", ofcourse he'd give the fire order. The problem is the blind idiot who can't see the difference between a camera and an rpg.
If you really think they're serving evil overlords for oil, you are just as delusional as the people trying to cover this up.
Get a grip on reality please; this isn't and wasn't the case. I'm certainly not excusing the actions in this video, but it would be helpful if you could contribute some rational thought rather than ingesting and spewing ridiculous propaganda.
Yes he looked like an RPG guy to me too, acted suspiciously, and could've taken down the chopper at any moment. This is not Call of Duty, you don't get to reload when your chopper blows up because of your "good faith in men".
You think they should have phoned up James Bond...
What the fuck are you talking about? The soldiers did not want to find out if they represented a danger. They didn't even wait to see if armed men got out of the van, they just opened fire.
clearly can't even understand the stats you're quoting.
All of those statistics cite the numbers counted in media reports and official statements by the US military. The Iraq Body Count, specifically, states that there are at least 80,000 civilian deaths by violence which are confirmed. The Lancet study is the one that talks about above average death rates in the neighborhood of 600,000. Which has nothing to do with the regular death rate you cite in America.
Your mind is a sad little place.
Listen, I know you mean well, but you're clearly a bumper-sticker thinker who hasn't bothered to put any real thought into the subject
This is the third time you'll ignore that the US was in Iraq illegally and for reasons having nothing to do with self protection. You may not be an American, but you sure know how to shill like one.
I saw three guys with AK47s in that video at time frame 3:40-3:48 with the helicopters cross hairs on them.
The cameras looked more like side weapons than cameras the way they carried them.
Too bad the journalists were there, but they know the dangers of reporting in a war zone, that is why they are paid so well to do it.
Too bad the guys in the van brought kids in, that was just wrong...they outta have gotten shot for bringing their kids into a obviously dangerous situation. I hope the kids make it, but in those areas kids often are taught to fight as if they are adults (not their fault really, but it happens ... so I cannot say whether they were civilian children or not, they could have been enemies).
Also known as Al-Reuters (a reference to Al-Jazeera of course) during the Israeli-Lebanese war a few years back... Made characters like "Green Helmet Guy" (a guy in a green helmet showing up at every incident reportedly all over Lebanon), "the dead child" (killed at least a dozen times, also photographed between 'jobs' drinking a soda in the shade) and "Worlds Unluckiest Mom" (she lost her family, house, children at least at three different locations) famous, as well as the worst photoshop job ever to hit the newspaper front pages (the graphic hack added dozens of bad copies of a single plume of smoke all over a single picture). Probably made the worst job of impartial objective reporting ever in the history of the world, nazi-propaganda from the Third Reich included!
Maybe these guys were different. I don't know. I do know that Reuters has made a mockery of honest reporting recently, especially in the middle east.
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