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Trazido a você por WikiLeaks Brasil http://wikileaksbrasil.org
fight the powa!
You mentioned Wikileaks and that´s a story that we've been
really focusing on in the last week. It´s this watchdog website,
and I write a column distributed by King Features.
You can ask the San Francisco Chronicle and other news papers to run the column.
Scores of newspapers do around the country.
Its called "Breaking the Sound Barrier", the same title as my book.
This weeks column is on Wikileaks,
and it´s this non profit watchdog website
that is dedicated to releasing
classified documents.
And several years ago in July of 2007
two Reuters employees in Iraq where killed
when an Apache helicopter opened fire on a group of people...
in New Baghdad a community in Baghdad.
Reuters asked for the video tape,
and they where denied under a Freedom of Information Act request.
Well some one in the military, we believe...
posted the video only last week of this attack. Its absolutely chilling.
You can go to Democracynow.org and Wikileaks to see it.
It shows the targets and it has the radio transmissions of the soliders...
in the planes talking to each other. In these helicopters.
They're laughing, they're swearing,
they're talking about getting these people on the ground.
And they do it right up the chain of command.
They're constantly asking for authority to attack.
Which they get.
And you see these individuals on the ground blown to pieces.
The Reuters photographer was 22.
Noor ...
The photographer was 22, Saeed Chmagh was the driver he had four kids.
He didn't die in the inital attack.
You see him crawling away
and they then blow him up when a van comes to save him,
and they blow up the van.
In the van where two children who where critically injured.
And they show you in this video they circle the faces of the children.
They also
transcribe the radio transmissions so you can
clearly hear and read what the soldiers are saying.
This is a huge story, we will continue to follow it.
This shows the power of actually having the video tape.
Showing the pictures.
Subtitles by the Amara.org community