WikiLeaks releases video of US Apache helicopter killing civilians and journalists

[Tarmac]

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you remember how the americans saved the indios and the brown monkeys? and razed samar? prompting then news reporter samuel langhorne clemens (better known as mark twain and author of huck finn and other classics) to write a scathing indictment of the atrocities.

The story of Balangiga is one that needs retelling. Oliver Stone wanted to make a movie out of it but then 9/11 happened and saying anything bad about US soldiers was suddenly not kosher.

Basta US military gani, kung makakitag langaw, gub-on ang tibuok balay.

And the killing isn't limited to military personnel. Security contractors (like Blackwater) have had a history of killing innocent Iraqis.

[Leartes]

paranoia and insecurity...

[grovestreet]

it's very contrary to what we see in the movies where we constantly see brave Americans risking their lives for civilians. yeah right.

[darkwing]

just watch the whole video, asa kaha dapit ato ang justification pag open fire nila

[grovestreet]

The U.S. with all their sophisticated military technology, can't even distinguish between a camera and an RPG.

[dmelsie]

mao ni resulta if ang mga sundalo patirahon og drugs para magpabiling abtik og listo sa duty

wa pa na confirm gi tirahan sila parak na daun saons,

[unsay_ngalan_nimo]

i watched generation kill... kinsa kita ani? nice ni siya..it was base on true to life accounts of marines of the first recon batt sa iraq.. naa book pero wala pako kabasa... ambot unsa kaduol ang series sa libro sa accounts...

[Tarmac]

just watch the whole video, asa kaha dapit ato ang justification pag open fire nila

From what I glean in the radio chatter:

1) A US Army unit was taking fire not too far from where the Apache was circling;
2) The Apache helicopter was looking for the source of the gunfire;
3) The journalists were congregating in an area where the gunfire was coming from (at least in the general direction of where the shooting was coming from);
4) The Apache crew saw the journalists and immediately concluded that the cameras, lenses and other equipment they were carrying were RPGs and AK-47s. In other words, they saw what they expected to see;
5) The Apache crew asked permission or clearance to fire or "engage" from "Bushmaster 6" (probably the company commander of the unit that was taking fire). The company commander, saying he had no troops in the vicinity, cleared the Apache to fire.

Ra-tatatatat and 11 lives are extinguished (don't know what happened to the poor kids).

Towards the end of the unedited footage, the Apaches attacked a building. What's the story on that building? There were clearly passersby in the area when the building went up. Fired three Hellfire missiles into it. One Hellfire costs about, what, $70,000 each. That's about $210,000 worth of missiles right there, not to mention several hundred dollars' worth of 30-mm chain gun ammo.

[darkwing]

i was more concerned on the van that tried to help the wounded, with the two kids anyways naa pa 2nd video na ileak and this time sa Afghanistan nasad murag mao tingali ni

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7087637.ece

US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened, Afghan investigators have told The Times.

Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a police officer and his brother were shot on February 12 when US and Afghan special forces stormed their home in Khataba village, outside Gardez in eastern Afghanistan. The precise composition of the force has never been made public.

The claims were made as Nato admitted responsibility for all the deaths for the first time last night. It had initially claimed that the women had been dead for several hours when the assault force discovered their bodies.

“Despite earlier reports we have determined that the women were accidentally killed as a result of the joint force firing at the men,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Todd Breasseale, a Nato spokesman. The coalition continued to deny that there had been a cover-up and said that its legal investigation, which is ongoing, had found no evidence of inappropriate conduct.
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The Kabul headquarters of General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and Nato forces, claimed originally that the women had been “tied up, gagged and killed”.

A senior Afghan official involved in a government investigation told The Times: “I think the special forces lied to McChrystal.”

“Why did the special forces collect their bullets from the area?” the official said. “They washed the area of the injuries with alcohol and brought out the bullets from the dead bodies. The bodies showed there were big holes.”

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Daghanang arm chair generals diri oi . tsk tsk tsk .... I dont even know how they were able to identify the 2 mediamen at around 500 yards and they can easily say who was in the phone , who was the one walking with a camera etc .