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Thu, 04/15/2010 - 12:00am
Wikileaks Video response
The US Secretary of State has blasted the release of video footage by the Internet group WikiLeaks showing the killing of Iraqi civilians by a US helicopter fire.
Robert Gates said that the WikiLeak video footage was taken out of context and depicts an incomplete picture of the battlefield.
But the Department of Defense has made no effort to put the video in context, or to explain the procedures used before, during or after the events depicted in the video.
The WikiLeaks video shows the killing of two journalists and over a dozen civilians in a strike conducted by a US military Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007.
KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Josh Stieber, a soldier with the Bravo Company 2-16 depicted in the video:
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