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5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
An American soldier suspected of leaking video footage of a US Apache helicopter strike in Iraq in which around a dozen people were gunned down in broad daylight has been charged, the army said on Tuesday.
The video of the attack in a Baghdad street on July 12, 2007 was posted on the Internet, causing international outcry over an action in which civilians were killed after being wrongly identified as insurgents.
It also provoked anger and renewed demands for compensation from the victims families, as well as acute embarrassment at the Pentagon and the White House.
Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, currently being held in a military jail in Kuwait in connection with the attack, faces two charges of misconduct, the US army in Baghdad said in a statement.
It also provoked anger and renewed demands for compensation from the victims families, as well as acute embarrassment at the Pentagon and the White House.
Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, currently being held in a military jail in Kuwait in connection with the attack, faces two charges of misconduct, the US army in Baghdad said in a statement.
To assist Private Manning, please see bradleymanning.org.
Source: collateralmurder.org ; ph.news.yahoo.com
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