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How Did Wikileaks Do It?
grassy_knoll writes "Related to the Wikileaks video recently released and discussed here, the NY Times reports: 'Somehow — it will not say how — WikiLeaks found the necessary computer time to decrypt a graphic video, released Monday, of a United States Army assault in Baghdad in 2007 that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the news agency Reuters. The video has been viewed more than two million times on YouTube, and has been replayed hundreds of times in television news reports.'
The article is light on details; what encryption algorithm was used? Was this a brute force attack? Did someone pass the decryption keys to Wikileaks along with the video? Something else?"
such as, the FACT that the "civilians" were actually enemy combatants. For more details:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/201878.php
Better question is why where these people killed when they were unarmed?
That all goes out the window when you selectively edit the video to gloss over the fact that the "innocent civilians" were packing RPGs
Military is all about killing other people. Are you saying that isn't bad?
While it is atrocious, it is also one of the things that is required of a soldier. To be able to follow an order to attack, a soldier has to be able to think it isn't bad.
Yes, in general, however we do not want soldiers following criminally treasonous orders like "go to Iraq" under any circumstances.
We want brave, honorable, patriots like Lieutenant Watada not cowardly treasonous dishonored scum like every American soldier in Iraq. Like these murdering scum in particular.
So, we're not talking about soldiers following legitimate orders. We're talking bottom of the barrel scum who committed treason to even be there in the first place.
I'm liberal, it just seems wikileaks is going out of it's way to make the military look bad and then play itself up.
"Look bad?" Have you SEEN the video? The US Military specifically committed war crimes, atrocities we've had other regimes "changed" for doing.
This is not just some kind of military PR Disaster! This is a major international incident and crime against humanity, and if it were any other country, especially those with brown people in them, every pundit and politician would be running around demanding blood.
Right, keep telling yourself 'PTSD and chronic drug abuse are not a problem. Our soldiers are FINE and don't need special care,' if that helps you sleep at night.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
What war crime? Define war crime.
A ground unit, Hotel 26, was fired on from this area. A gunship came in and destroyed a group of armed men. The cameramen were embedded in that enemy unit. Reporters who want to live to be great grandfathers don't generally become part of an armed unit.
Those reporters who are embedded in the US military's various units face the very same risks that the reporter in the video faced. They can get just as dead, just as easily.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Did the van have a recognizable sign that it was an ambulance, something like a red cross, or a red crescent? No? Then, the occupants were aiding and abetting an enemy. No laws broken.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Personally, I hope they all die in painful single car auto accidents in which no passengers are injured. In any event, next thing is to ID the voices and make sure these pansies (notice how they can't do their killing of innocents in person but have to do it from miles away like real "heros"?) never ever get a job beyond min wage. Seriously, anything short of prison or death is too good for them.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
I've watched the video and I'm sorry but I thought those were weapons in their hands as well.
You're either a liar or an idiot.