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COLLATERAL MURDER

by Wikileaks

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    Unofficial Wikileaks "Collateral Miurder" Tape Edition, 40 minute with colorful slleves + documentation

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A side 19:26
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B side 19:03
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April 2010 WikiLeaks has released the classified US military “Collateral Murder“ helicopter gunsight video.

It is set on the 12th July 2007. US Army occupied Iraq since 2003. Some US troops are doing knocking searches. Two US AH-64 Apache helicopters are providing overview flights in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad on this day.

They see a group of people and identify a camera and a tripod as weapons. They request permission to engage and start to shoot at innocent groups of civilians. What followed is a massacre. It seems so surreal when one hears the soldiers talking and behaving like in a video game, congratulating each other for good shots or laughing about the killed persons.

Among the victims, two Reuters News Agency employees: the photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen (22) and his driver and assistent Saeed Chmagh (40). Salah Mutashar was on the way with his Kids, Duaa and Sajad. He wanted to bring them to School, when he saw the scene of dead persons and one wounded person trying to crawl. He immediately stopped to help when another person came to help also. Together they wanted bring Reuters employee Saeed into the van. In this moment the airstrike started again. Mutashar, Saeed and the other helper died.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.

Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, a former army analyst in Baghdad got these files in her hands. She leaked classified diplomatic and military documents, including this video. She was imprisoned in 2010 for seven years and again in 2019.

To this day, the war criminals are free. The commanders and the shooters. Julian Assange, who published the war crimes via WikiLeaks is confined in "the British Guantanamo" for more than 3 years, facing life in prison if extradited to the US.

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released October 8, 2022

Original soundtrack of the 'Collateral Murder' video published by Wikileaks , 2010.
Tape edition by Les Intérêts Spécifiques for NoisyLeaks! in Berlin 8-30th of October 2022.

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