Video showing U.S. helicopter pilots gunning down 12 civilians in Baghdad attack leaked online

dublin | anti-war / imperialism | other press Wednesday April 07, 2010 12:43 by Danny Kaplan - Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall

'Ha ha, I hit 'em' 'Look at those dead b******s.'

Democracy Now reports: Massacre Caught on Tape: US Military Confirms Authenticity of Their Own Chilling Video Showing Killing of Journalists.

The US military has confirmed the authenticity of newly released video showing US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqi civilians. On Monday, the website WikiLeaks.org posted footage taken from a US military helicopter in July 2007 as it killed twelve people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh

The Pentagon has never publicly released the footage and has previously cleared those involved of wrongdoing. WikiLeaks says it managed to de-encrypt the tape after receiving it from a confidential source inside the military who wanted the story to be known.