BBC: WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video / Al Jazeera English Interviews Wikileaks' Editor (Video)

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No link to the video provided in the BBC article but at least they're reporting it...



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.

The WikiLeaks site campaigns for freedom of information and posts leaked documents online. There has been no Pentagon response to the video so far.

High-quality video

The video, released on Monday, is of high quality and appears to be authentic, the BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8603938.stm


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Julian Assange, the editor of WikiLeaks.org, told Al Jazeera that the footage, released on Sunday, corroborates witness testimony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1O7jL_hKXQ

Also posted in the videos forum: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x451986

Al Jazeera English's article on their website:

Website 'shows video of US attack'

One of the internet's biggest sources of classified government information has released video of what it says is a US helicopter firing at civilians in Iraq.

WikiLeaks, a website that publishes anonymously sourced documents, released what it called previously unseen footage on Monday.

It said the footage filmed from a helicopter cockpit shows a missile strike on a crowded square in a Baghdad neighbourhood in July 2007.

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Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane, reporting from Washington, said Pentagon officials seemed "completely surprised" when informed of the release of the tape, and appeared not to have heard about the footage beforehand.

"So far we still haven't gotten a response. No response to what's on the tape and no confirmation that this is in fact a military tape," she said.

Much more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/04/201045123449200569.html

AJ English's blog on it: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/americas/2010/04/05/wikileaks-vs-pentagon">Wikileas Versus the Pentagon