This is the incident that was leaked by Chelsea Manning (then Bradley Manning) for which he jailed.
‘Collateral Murder’: 10th anniversary of infamous airstrike that exposed US cover-up
RT : 12 Jul, 2017
On the 10th anniversary of the US military airstrike on Baghdad which killed at least a dozen people, RT looks back at the indiscriminate attack brought to light by WikiLeaks in ‘Collateral Murder.’
Whistleblower and former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning leaked the damning footage. She was released in May after serving nearly seven years of confinement from the date of her arrest.
US Apache helicopters launched an aerial attack in East Baghdad on July 12, 2007, killing at least 12 people. Among them were Reuters photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and camera assistant Saeed Chmagh.
Saleh Matasher Tomal, a driver who tried to help those wounded was also killed, while his two children were injured. A 2007 military investigation cleared everyone involved of wrongdoing, and claimed to find no information of how the two children were hurt.
Reuters requested footage of the airstrikes under the Freedom of Information Act in 2007 but was unsuccessful.
WikiLeaks published the footage in 2010 after it was leaked to them by intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning.
Manning was subsequently charged under the Espionage Act and sentenced to 35 years in military prison. Her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2017, with Manning released in May 2017 having served seven years.
Dean Yates, Reuters bureau chief in Iraq at the time of the attack, told ABC last month that the news agency was not aware of the US military’s rules of engagement.
“What we didn't realise at that time was that the US military had decided that anyone seen in the streets of Baghdad with a weapon was considered hostile, and could, therefore, be engaged, they could be shot at and we just didn't know this.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well.
The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com
Selected comments:
US comitted genocide against natives, enslaved blacks, massacred Filipinos, nuked Japanese, poisoned Vietnamese, bombed Iraqis, messed up Libya and the list goes on.
And not one single person responsible for that attack went to prison, and not even charges were ever filed against anybody. So, that alone speaks volumes about US military and justice system. Bloody heartless criminals.
That's Obomber and his promise to be the most transparent gov ever while jailing more whistle blowers than everyone else combined.
This footage doesn't lie and then such a murderous country accuses russia of bombing "last" hospitals in aleppo? (based on hearsay and fake news provided by al-nusra jihadists).
Funny how Reuters STILL try to find ways to justify the attack, even though one of their own journalists were killed. Says a lot about western "media", doesn't it?
US army deliberately run over people on the streets with their humvee and laugh about it.
Is this what "fighting for our freedom" means! Absolutely disgusting & those animals involved in that diabolical murder must be brought to justice.
This is further proof of how dangerous the criminal US government is. A whistleblower who expose US war crimes is punished but those that committed the war crimes were all cleared of any wrongdoing. The US government feels free to invade other nations and murder people in those country and then exonerate themselves of any wrongdoing.
Imagine how frustrsting it must be for Iraqi/Syrian kids to see the propaganda in the west, theyre being hunted down by US backed terror groups..and west media are portraying Alqaeda/Nusra rtc as heroes.
RT : 12 Jul, 2017
On the 10th anniversary of the US military airstrike on Baghdad which killed at least a dozen people, RT looks back at the indiscriminate attack brought to light by WikiLeaks in ‘Collateral Murder.’
Whistleblower and former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning leaked the damning footage. She was released in May after serving nearly seven years of confinement from the date of her arrest.
US Apache helicopters launched an aerial attack in East Baghdad on July 12, 2007, killing at least 12 people. Among them were Reuters photojournalist Namir Noor-Eldeen and camera assistant Saeed Chmagh.
Saleh Matasher Tomal, a driver who tried to help those wounded was also killed, while his two children were injured. A 2007 military investigation cleared everyone involved of wrongdoing, and claimed to find no information of how the two children were hurt.
Reuters requested footage of the airstrikes under the Freedom of Information Act in 2007 but was unsuccessful.
WikiLeaks published the footage in 2010 after it was leaked to them by intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning.
Manning was subsequently charged under the Espionage Act and sentenced to 35 years in military prison. Her sentence was commuted by President Barack Obama in 2017, with Manning released in May 2017 having served seven years.
Dean Yates, Reuters bureau chief in Iraq at the time of the attack, told ABC last month that the news agency was not aware of the US military’s rules of engagement.
“What we didn't realise at that time was that the US military had decided that anyone seen in the streets of Baghdad with a weapon was considered hostile, and could, therefore, be engaged, they could be shot at and we just didn't know this.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well.
The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on http://collateralmurder.com
Selected comments:
US comitted genocide against natives, enslaved blacks, massacred Filipinos, nuked Japanese, poisoned Vietnamese, bombed Iraqis, messed up Libya and the list goes on.
And not one single person responsible for that attack went to prison, and not even charges were ever filed against anybody. So, that alone speaks volumes about US military and justice system. Bloody heartless criminals.
That's Obomber and his promise to be the most transparent gov ever while jailing more whistle blowers than everyone else combined.
This footage doesn't lie and then such a murderous country accuses russia of bombing "last" hospitals in aleppo? (based on hearsay and fake news provided by al-nusra jihadists).
Funny how Reuters STILL try to find ways to justify the attack, even though one of their own journalists were killed. Says a lot about western "media", doesn't it?
US army deliberately run over people on the streets with their humvee and laugh about it.
Is this what "fighting for our freedom" means! Absolutely disgusting & those animals involved in that diabolical murder must be brought to justice.
This is further proof of how dangerous the criminal US government is. A whistleblower who expose US war crimes is punished but those that committed the war crimes were all cleared of any wrongdoing. The US government feels free to invade other nations and murder people in those country and then exonerate themselves of any wrongdoing.
Imagine how frustrsting it must be for Iraqi/Syrian kids to see the propaganda in the west, theyre being hunted down by US backed terror groups..and west media are portraying Alqaeda/Nusra rtc as heroes.
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