A video released by the organization Wikileaks from military sources, shows, from the perspective of a pilot of an Apache helicopter, shooting at a group of men armed and others unarmed and walk down the street a neighborhood of New Baghdad. This video contradicts the official version of how the U.S. Army killed eleven Iraqis on July 12, 2007, among whom was the photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh, who worked for the agency Reuters news.
In the video, listen for example to hold military deaths shouting "look at those bastards dead! How nice " beg for permission to shoot a man to his vehicle to assist the wounded , jokes and laughter in situations such as when a tank rolls over the body of one of the murdered ... Furthermore, when U.S. ground forces arrive and find children injured in the van which had been fired, the pilots blame the Iraqis: "Well, it's your fault for bringing children into battle," said one. "True," replied another.
The video, presented in Washington, entitled "Murder Collateral also describe the course of rescuing the victims, where two children were also injured. In the pictures you can see that nobody was attacking U.S. soldiers.
also identifies the two Reuters staff members carrying cameras. In the same street there are other armed men (a fact which is not unusual in the streets of Baghdad), but not hostile to the military helicopter. In fact, they seem not to notice his presence.
The day after the attack, the U.S. Army accounted for the deaths of media workers as part of a "clash between troops and insurgents, although the video shows that there was any exchange of gunfire.
A military spokesman said at that time the newspaper The New York Times "There is no doubt that coalition forces were clearly in the middle of combat operations against a hostile force."
Reuter agency unsuccessfully demanded an investigation into the circumstances and the acquisition of audiovisual material to appeal to the Freedom of Information Act. In response, the U.S. Army concluded that the actions of the soldiers during the incident were in accordance with the law in armed conflicts and ROE (Rules of Engagement), the rules on when, where and how the use of force must be used.
According to RSF, 221 journalists and media workers involved have died in Iraq since March 2003.
This fact is checked again to always use the same arguments as if they had prepared a paper for the case that its military killed civilians, journalists ... and give impunity to justify its military.
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