War is terrorism.
Monday/05 April 2010
Wikileaks.com today released a video
of the murder of civilians in Baghdad in 2007. The video is
embedded below. There is explanatory text at the beginning of the
video so there is some time before the murders are shown. There is
annotation in the video and the voices, though English, are
subtitled.
The camera in a helicopter machine gun records the audio and the video. The field of the video has a crosshairs in its centre.
This video has been kept from the public. The incident in which two Reuters staff and several other Iraqis citizens were murdered was investigated by US Forces and US Forces were found to be operating within rules of war. Rules of war. Jeez, what a sick thing.
The events in the video are different from the description of events in the conclusion of the investigation.
I call it murder and coverup.
The information now says that the photographers arrived to hang out with the Iraqis, shoot some photos and get some stories. Certainly the video shows a relaxed group of people — relaxed even with a military helicopter buzzing around overhead. That is not suspicious behaviour.
At one point, a van arrives. Men load bodies into the van. I cannot understand why this van is then fired upon. Two badly injured children are later taken from the van. I don't get it.
Could we accept a helicopter gunship circling over our cities and shooting allegedly, but not necessarily, nasty people? Could we accept a drone over, say, Oakville, Brandon, Saskatoon or Nanaimo to bomb a child's birthday party in order to murder one person thought to be in the house?
Every action has a consequence. What kind of collective consequences do we want to shape the future of our people, our children, the nature kingdoms? The consequences of our collective actions, including our wars, is the world as we know it.
I have put this video on this blog because it is unsanitary as is war. Don't look at it if you don't want to.
For further information go HERE.
Here's the New York Times article from 2007 with its information mistakes.
Here is the report by the US Military about the murders.
Further information in this video:
War is terrorism.
And finally this interview:
The camera in a helicopter machine gun records the audio and the video. The field of the video has a crosshairs in its centre.
This video has been kept from the public. The incident in which two Reuters staff and several other Iraqis citizens were murdered was investigated by US Forces and US Forces were found to be operating within rules of war. Rules of war. Jeez, what a sick thing.
The events in the video are different from the description of events in the conclusion of the investigation.
I call it murder and coverup.
The information now says that the photographers arrived to hang out with the Iraqis, shoot some photos and get some stories. Certainly the video shows a relaxed group of people — relaxed even with a military helicopter buzzing around overhead. That is not suspicious behaviour.
At one point, a van arrives. Men load bodies into the van. I cannot understand why this van is then fired upon. Two badly injured children are later taken from the van. I don't get it.
Could we accept a helicopter gunship circling over our cities and shooting allegedly, but not necessarily, nasty people? Could we accept a drone over, say, Oakville, Brandon, Saskatoon or Nanaimo to bomb a child's birthday party in order to murder one person thought to be in the house?
Every action has a consequence. What kind of collective consequences do we want to shape the future of our people, our children, the nature kingdoms? The consequences of our collective actions, including our wars, is the world as we know it.
I have put this video on this blog because it is unsanitary as is war. Don't look at it if you don't want to.
For further information go HERE.
Here's the New York Times article from 2007 with its information mistakes.
Here is the report by the US Military about the murders.
Further information in this video:
War is terrorism.
And finally this interview:
