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
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