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Leaked footage from Apache showing "US military slaughter" in Baghdad

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Wikileaks can be found here:

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WikiLeaks has posted a video on its website which it claims shows the killing of civilians by the US military in Baghdad in 2007.
The website's organisers say they were given the footage, which they say comes from cameras on US Apache helicopters.
They say they decrypted it, but would not reveal who gave it to them.

BBC News - WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video

I served in Iraq and witnessed many strategic errors that cost the lives of many innocents, but unfortunately war is trial and error and we need to learn from our mistakes and minimize the risk while increasing success.

This footage depicts one of those mistakes, but the killings where unintentional and nobody is to blame but those who ordered the operation. I know as i have seen that there are many more videos yet to be brought to the public eye and its only a matter of time they do.
 
The video clearly shows some of the men were armed. It's not the U.S. military's fault the insurgents were using children as a human shield. Despicable.
 
Wikileaks can be found here:

WikiLeaks

The video can be viewed here:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.



BBC News - WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video

I served in Iraq and witnessed many strategic errors that cost the lives of many innocents, but unfortunately war is trial and error and we need to learn from our mistakes and minimize the risk while increasing success.

This footage depicts one of those mistakes, but the killings where unintentional and nobody is to blame but those who ordered the operation. I know as i have seen that there are many more videos yet to be brought to the public eye and its only a matter of time they do.

The people to blame are the terrorists and the civilians that shelter them.
 
Pilot stated it right there at the end... what the hell are they doing bringing kids in a truck to a place where clearly there are 8 to 10 body's stewn across the place? It's a dangerous business taking pictures in such an area and without notifying the U.S. Army before going there. The army had no way of knowing journalists where there - and they were killed because of it. The other men there had RPG's and AK's in an open area. Unfortunate, but clean engagements. Hopefully lessons are learned from this.
 
Im damn happy they shot them to hell. I hope to see more of the same! :thumbs:

Dont **** with America!!!!! :2usflag:
 
Pilot stated it right there at the end... what the hell are they doing bringing kids in a truck to a place where clearly there are 8 to 10 body's stewn across the place? It's a dangerous business taking pictures in such an area and without notifying the U.S. Army before going there. The army had no way of knowing journalists where there - and they were killed because of it. The other men there had RPG's and AK's in an open area. Unfortunate, but clean engagements. Hopefully lessons are learned from this.

Well said. No sympathy from me on this.

Those cameramen were with armed guys with a group of 4 Humvees coming down the road hiding behind a building.

And how did that van get there that fast? I'd love to know that one.
 
Wow... You are all grotesque. Those men attacked noone. The van with kids was obviously random good citizen trying to help someone with no weapons that is hurt. They purposely allowed unarmed non-combatents to be murdered via shoddy rules of engagement.
 
The video clearly shows some of the men were armed. It's not the U.S. military's fault the insurgents were using children as a human shield. Despicable.

It always amuses me when idiots and terrorist sympathizers expect troops to ignore the enemy or stand there and just get shot just because the enemy is using human shields.
 
The video clearly shows some of the men were armed. It's not the U.S. military's fault the insurgents were using children as a human shield. Despicable.

Possibly.
However there are always two sides to every story and i wont give whatever i take from the footage.
 
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Wow... You are all grotesque. Those men attacked noone. The van with kids was obviously random good citizen trying to help someone with no weapons that is hurt. They purposely allowed unarmed non-combatents to be murdered via shoddy rules of engagement.

Please dont say insane things like this again.
 
Reporters who stand on street corners with armed men in a near free fire zone are asking to be shot at, it's sad but true.

These men were clearly up to no good and didn't have a brain cell between them to walk down the street in the open with Apaches overhead.

You can hear choppers from a very long way off, they fly over my house every few days moving from one base to another an I can hear them over a mile away with the TV on.

They don't have a whisper mode like Air Wolf did.
 
NOTE to all Americans! If you find anyone wounded that you do not know DO NOT HELP THEM! This is an act of terrorism and may be met and engaged with deadly force.
 
Everyone owns guns in Iraq as a means of defense against paramilitaries, due to the almost nonexistent state of the Iraqi police/army. AK-47's are among the most common for obvious reasons. Owning/possessing an AK-47 does not justify murder, which this clearly was. And that was very obviously a camera and not an RPG.

But it's not surprising to see the absolutely insane conservatives on this forum come forward and blatantly express their dishonesty and bowing down to all actions taken by "America". I don't think their dishonest and absolutely disgusting position regarding the murder of innocent human beings could be more clearly exposed than it is in this thread. Clearly to them it is acceptable as long as it is America that kills them, and they must be terrorists because why else would America shoot them?
 
The saddest thing of all.... This happened in 2007?
 
Wikileaks can be found here:

WikiLeaks

The video can be viewed here:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.



BBC News - WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video

I served in Iraq and witnessed many strategic errors that cost the lives of many innocents, but unfortunately war is trial and error and we need to learn from our mistakes and minimize the risk while increasing success.

This footage depicts one of those mistakes, but the killings where unintentional and nobody is to blame but those who ordered the operation. I know as i have seen that there are many more videos yet to be brought to the public eye and its only a matter of time they do.

War is hell!! People die!! What more can you say?

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ricksfolly said:
War is hell!! People die!! What more can you say?

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"War is hell!! People die!! What more can you say?"

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"War is hell!! People die!! What more can you say?"

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Politics101 said:
The video clearly shows some of the men were armed. It's not the U.S. military's fault the insurgents were using children as a human shield. Despicable.

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ZOMG TERRORIST SHOOT HIM!!!
 
On a seperate note:
U.S. Admits Role in February Killing of Afghan Women - NYTimes.com
KABUL, Afghanistan — After initially denying involvement or any cover-up in the deaths of three Afghan women during a badly bungled American Special Operations assault in February, the American-led military command in Kabul admitted late on Sunday that its forces had, in fact, killed the women during the nighttime raid.

The admission immediately raised questions about what really happened during the Feb. 12 operation — and what falsehoods followed — including a new report that Special Operations forces dug bullets out of the bodies of the women to hide the true nature of their deaths.

Now, this is my solution to all of those that feel guilty about what the warmongers of our USA our doing in all our names. Regular protesting does not work. The media easily counters most of the peoples voices. Legally and in a non terrorist way get all merchants to agree with you or be protested near and upon in compliance with all laws. The media can drown out everything in general. But nothing specific.

All people who want peace to play the dominant role in America protest at one place at a time at first until the message grows. Everyone pick a place that makes money and protest outside their money making area until that place agrees to posting your view of the war. Mine happens to be stop all war are return all of our troops home. Restore people's voting power in America. (keep it legal and on sidewalks and all that. Anyone who brakes the law deserves to be arrested)

If that place doesn't agree with your view and will not allow you to post signs you can agree with up then keep protesting. If it does then move on. Eventually all places that support the war will be protested upon. And all those that are against it will openly show their support.
 
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That was not a clean engagement. The group demonstrated no hostile intent and the ID of an RPG was clearly wrong.
 
That was not a clean engagement. The group demonstrated no hostile intent and the ID of an RPG was clearly wrong.

That is exactly what I saw. It is also fairly clear to me that it was a camera. How could they have mistaken that for a gun??? I'm not sure why the American military felt the need to engage, at least from the footage that I have seen. Perhaps there is more to the story, I don't know. But that footage was chilling to the bone.
 
That is exactly what I saw. It is also fairly clear to me that it was a camera. How could they have mistaken that for a gun??? I'm not sure why the American military felt the need to engage, at least from the footage that I have seen. Perhaps there is more to the story, I don't know. But that footage was chilling to the bone.

I disagree when one of the Iraqis was at the corner of building it looked like the top part of a RPG to me. But aside from that it did seem shooting the van was overdone. You could even hear the soldiers wanting him to pick up a weapon so they could shoot him. That was probably the most chilling part to me.
 
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