2007 Video of US Soldiers Shooting Civilians Recently Confirmed

The WikiLeaks organization recently released a leaked video from 2007 showing American soldiers in Iraq indiscriminately shooting at civilians, including two Reuters journalists, from an Apache helicopter in Baghdad. A senior U.S. military official confirmed the authenticity of the video just this Monday.

Julian Assange, a WikiLeaks spokesman, said the video "shows the debasement and moral corruption of soldiers as a result of war. It seems like they are playing video games with people's lives."

In the video you can hear the soldiers laugh as they gun down Iraqi civilians saying "Light 'em all up." After the shooting ceased, a van pulled up to load the wounded civilians inside. At this moment the US soldiers began firing at the van, killing more civilians and wounding two children on the inside.

When U.S. troops arrive on the ground to investigate the scene, a U.S. military vehicle drives over the body of one of the dead. Two soldiers are heard laughing over the intercom of the Apache helicopter. The U.S. troops discover two badly wounded children, 10-year-old Sayad and 5-year-old Doaha, and a soldier makes a decision to evacuate them by air to a U.S. military hospital. The order is then revoked and the children are turned over to Iraqi police to be taken to a local clinic, where care is inferior and the wait to be treated is much longer.

The Reuters journalists who were killed were Namir Nour El Deen, age 21, and Saeed Chmagh, age 40.

"What Namir was doing was a patriotic work. He was trying to cover the violations of the Americans against the Iraqi people," said Nabil Nour El Deen, Namir's brother. "Is this the democracy and freedom they claim they have brought to Iraq?"

"This is another crime that should be added to the record of American crimes in Iraq and the world," Nabil added.

Reuters reported on July 16 2007, "The U.S. military said last week it had called in ‘attack aviation reinforcement’ after coming under fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. Nine insurgents and two civilians ‘reported as employees for the Reuters news service’ were killed, the statement said.’”

As we now know, the 2007 statement from the military is a lie because the video shows that the civilians were armed only with video cameras and photography equipment (which the military said were "AK-47's and RPG's") and the US helicopter attacked first. This revealing video evokes many questions. How many of the killed "insurgents" over the years were actually harmless civilians? How many other lies has the American military told? Is the official claim of 1.5 million dead Iraqis actually a lot higher? One thing is for certain though, and that is every day similar statements are issued by NATO forces in the Middle East that contain falsehoods and half-truths.

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