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The War
Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings, Torture and Big Money |
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Iraq: The Apache Helicopter Video |
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Background - Iraq, December 1st,
2003 “The pictures are appalling, the words devastating. As a wounded Iraqi
crawls from beneath a burning truck, an American helicopter pilot tells his
commander that one of three men has survived his night air attack. ‘Someone
wounded,’ the pilot cries. Then he received the reply: ‘Hit him, hit the
truck and him.’ As the helicopter’s gun camera captures the scene on video,
the pilot fires a 30mm gun at the wounded man, vaporising him in a second. “British and most European television stations censored the tape off
the air last night on the grounds that the pictures were too terrible to
show. But deliberately shooting a wounded man is a war crime under the Geneva
Conventions and this extraordinary film of US air crews in action over Iraq
is likely to create yet another international outcry. […]” Excerpt from an
“Independent” article
from May 6th, 2004 |
View of the later killing scene from the gunner’s
camera |
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External view: link file format: .wmv |
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May 10th, 2004 - Iraq Killing Video Story
Re-Surfaces in Mainstream Press 1 news article by
Online Journalism News May 6th, 2004 - “Smoke Him” - Video Shows Wounded
Iraqis Being Shot by US Helicopters 1 news article by the
Independent February 26th, 2004 - Iraq Video Clip Killings
Trigger TV Investigation 1 news article by
Online Journalism News January 14th, 2004 - Apache Killing Video Becomes
Viral News 1 news article by Online Journalism News |
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Iraqi drops a tube on the field |
The killing begins |
Final killing of a wounded Iraqi |
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