Collateral Murder

[Trigger Warning]

Yesterday, WikiLeaks, a website that publishes anonymous leaks of sensitive information from governments, released a video of U.S. soldiers in an Apache helicopter firing upon and killing most of a group of non-combatant men, including a Reuters photographer, in Baghdad in 2007. The video is ghastly and depressing. At one point, the soldiers are literally begging for permission to shoot at a van that arrived to rescue the few survivors of the attack.

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