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Comment by Ria on March 15, 2013 at 2:39am

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

Collateral Murder - Iraq

Comment by Ria on March 15, 2013 at 2:33am

"In the one-hour seven-minute recording from a court hearing in late February, Private First Class Manning describes how he wanted to expose the "bloodlust" of US forces fighting in the Middle East and how he had a "clear conscience" after helping to engineer the largest intelligence leak in American history. "*

There has been a high level of secrecy around Bradley Manning's court marshal. In audio released by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Manning explains in his testimony why he released the information. Does he sound like someone who's "anti-American" or someone who deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars?