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Video of Slain Journalists Released…

A classified video taken from a U.S. military Apache helicopter gunship showing the killing of two Iraqi employees of Reuters was released in its entirely today by Wikileaks, which is an organization devoted to covering secrets (and whistleblowers) from anonymous sources.

The edited video shows the Apache firing on a group of men in Baghdad, believed by the pilots to be insurgents, then striking a vehicle that stops to help one of the wounded, and then later, firing Hellfire missiles into a building.

The video was released at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., ending weeks of speculation during which time WikiLeaks dropped hints, but no concrete details, about the video. The video depicts (in it’s entirety) the 2007 Iraqi strike, that killed Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, a Reuters photographer, and Saeed Chmagh, 40, a Reuters driver, and other people. Read more here…You can view the video below….

(Warning, it’s graphic)

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