The footage of US soldiers killing 12 people in Baghdad in Iraq released online by Wikileaks yesterday is undoubtedly shocking: but were their actions illegal? The New Yorker has a legal analysis
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US Army “video game” killings tape goes viral
Internet outrage is growing after website Wikileaks exposed a ‘decrypted’ video from a US Apache helicopter that appears to show US forces in Iraq killing at least 11 unarmed civilians in 2007, reports Harley Dennett.
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VIDEO: US military slays citizens and journos in Iraq
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video which it says shows the “indiscriminate slaying” of civilians and Reuters journalists in Iraq in 2007, on a comprehensive website called Collateral Murder, including a timeline and transcript.
PHOTO GALLERY: Bedrooms of America’s war dead
A haunting look inside the still-made bedrooms of young fallen American soldiers: sports trophies, home-made quilts and teddy bears. And don’t miss the story behind the project.
General Petraeus tells it like it is?
General David Petraeus’ ‘landmark’ Iraq surge testimony, expected to hail a ‘turning point’ in war policy, was mundane and limited according to the sceptical bulk of the world media today.








