In April 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified U.S. military video with audio, depicting unprovoked, indiscriminate slaying by U.S. military of over a dozen people on a street in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad July 12, 2007; the victims included two Reuters news staff. The footage also revealed soldiers shooting up a civilian vehicle that stopped to help the wounded; people in the vehicle were struck and the seriously wounded included two young children. Reuters had tried to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.
For further information, see WikiLeak’s special project website www.collateralmurder.com Some of the other stories about Iraq that were broken by WikiLeaks: U.S. equipment expenditure in Iraq, probable U.S. violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, and the battle over the Iraqi city of Fallujah. www.wikileak.org
WikiLeaks publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive documents from governments and other sources worldwide, while protecting the anonymity of journalists and whistleblowers who could face serious consequences such as imprisonment and even death in some countries. Founded by Chinese dissidents, as well as journalists and technologists from the U.S., Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa, it is hosted in Sweden. Its significance has been compared to Daniel Elsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
WikiLeaks is a trusted source that has receives accolades from major news media, civil liberties and human rights organizations all over the globe. |
