{"id":516337,"date":"2010-04-05T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81409"},"modified":"2010-04-05T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T18:53:13","slug":"graphic-video-of-u-s-helicopter-in-iraq-firing-on-civilians-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/516337","title":{"rendered":"GRAPHIC: Video of U.S. Helicopter in Iraq Firing on Civilians in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2010\/04\/05\/well-its-their-fault-for-bringing-their-kids-into-a-battle\/\">Marcy Wheeler<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2010\/04\/05\/4117730-wikileaks-posts-combat-video-from-iraq-showing-civilian-casualties\">Rachel Maddow<\/a>, this <a href=\"http:\/\/collateralmurder.com\/\">video obtained by Wikileaks<\/a> shows what the classified information repository Website claims is an &#8220;unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers&#8221; by a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. &#8220;Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.&#8221; The military claimed it was targeting insurgents, and the U.S. personnel in the video do not seem to be deliberately targeting civilians. Gregg Carlstrom has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themajlis.org\/2010\/04\/05\/video-the-pentagons-murder-coverup-in-iraq?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+TheMajlis+(The+Majlis)\">judicious and balanced response<\/a>.<span id=\"more-81409\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"490\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5rXPrfnU3G0&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"490\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5rXPrfnU3G0&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Marcy Wheeler and Rachel Maddow, this video obtained by Wikileaks shows what the classified information repository Website claims is an &#8220;unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers&#8221; by a U.S. helicopter in Baghdad in 2007. &#8220;Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.&#8221; The military claimed it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}