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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Show me where the 2007 helicopter incident was selectively edited.
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"According to Tom Cohen, a reporter at CNN, "the soldiers of Bravo Company 2-16 Infantry had been under fire all morning from rocket-propelled grenades and small arms on the first day of Operation Ilaaj in Baghdad". Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. Apache helicopters were called in by a soldier in the Humvee (Hotel 2/6) under attack from the same position used by Namir Noor-Eldeen to photograph the vehicle. According to a military review, soldiers in that company "had been under sporadic small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire since" the operation—described as "clearing their sector and looking for weapons caches"—began.
"The Air Weapons Team (AWT) of two Apache AH-64s (part of the 1st Cavalry Division) had been requested by the Army's 2–16 Infantry Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, before July 12 to support Operation Ilaaj. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24am. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53am, where, according to the official report, sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued.
"In the first strike "Crazyhorse 1/8" and "Crazyhorse 1/9" directed 30mm cannon fire at a group of nine to eleven men, of whom
one had an AK-47 and another an RPG-7; most were unarmed; two were war correspondents for Reuters: Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, whose cameras were mistaken for weapons. Eight men, including Noor-Eldeen, were killed; Chmagh was wounded."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12...hdad_airstrike
The WikiLeaks video obscured the men with the weapons by highlighting the Reuters reporters (whose camera equipment, btw, was misidentified as weapons in the heat of battle); thus, casting all the other men in a darkened field on the screen.
"The Web site also posted a 17-minute edited version, which proved to be much more widely viewed on YouTube than the full version.
Critics contend that the shorter video was misleading because it did not make clear that the attacks took place amid clashes in the neighborhood and that one of the men was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/wo...eaks.html?_r=0
See more at:
http://markhumphrys.com/2007.airstrike.html
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