Bradly Manning leaked Wikileaks footage
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Uploaded on Apr 3, 2010
Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be insurgents. After the initial shooting, an unarmed group of adults and children in a minivan arrives on the scene and attempts to transport the wounded. They are fired upon as well. The official statement on this incident initially listed all adults as insurgents and claimed the US military did not know how the deaths ocurred. Wikileaks released this video with transcripts and a package of supporting documents on April 5th 2010 on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
Collateral Murder
OverviewQuoteUpdate: On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, was charged with disclosing this video (after allegedly speaking to an unfaithful journalist). The whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has called Mr. Manning a 'hero'. He is currently imprisoned in Kuwait. The Apache crew and those behind the cover up depicted in the video have yet to be charged. To assist Private Manning, please see bradleymanning.org.
5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.
Wikileaks leaked video of Civilians killed in Baghdad - Full videohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik
QuoteThe military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how the children were injured.
After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement".
Consequently, WikiLeaks has released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing these rules before, during, and after the killings.
WikiLeaks has released both the original 38 minutes video and a shorter version with an initial analysis. Subtitles have been added to both versions from the radio transmissions.
WikiLeaks obtained this video as well as supporting documents from a number of military whistleblowers. WikiLeaks goes to great lengths to verify the authenticity of the information it receives. We have analyzed the information about this incident from a variety of source material. We have spoken to witnesses and journalists directly involved in the incident.
WikiLeaks wants to ensure that all the leaked information it receives gets the attention it deserves. In this particular case, some of the people killed were journalists that were simply doing their jobs: putting their lives at risk in order to report on war. Iraq is a very dangerous place for journalists: from 2003- 2009, 139 journalists were killed while doing their work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kelmEZe8whI
http://www.collateralmurder.com/
Bradley Manning admits to leaking 'the most significant documents of our time'
Published time: February 28, 2013 18:28 (http://rt.com/files/news/1e/2e/a0/00/manning-sentence-wikileaks-assange.si.jpg)
U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning leaves the courthouse after his motion hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland February 28, 2013. (Reuters/Jose Luis Magana)QuoteBradley Manning, the US Army intelligence officer accused of passing sensitive military documents to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, has pleaded guilty to ten separate charges. The army, however, will pursue the grave charge of aiding the enemy.
Although the army judge has accepted Manning's guilty pleas on ten counts, the remaining 12 charges are still to be reviewed. The army accuses Manning, 25, of aiding the enemy. He is slated to go before a military court-martial this June. If convicted, he could face a life sentence.
Private First Class Manning told a military court that he was responsible for uploading a trove of material to the whistleblower website and pleaded guilty to 10 counts, RT's Andrew Blake reported from the courtroom.
After his plea was read to the court, Pfc Manning for the first time formally admitted guilt in the court, more than 1,000 days after being arrested. Reading a 35-page statement from his seat before Col. Denise Lind, Manning explained why exactly he risked his life to publish state-secrets.
Pfc. Manning pleaded not guilty to aiding the enemy and a number of other lesser charges, but told the court he'd like to take the blame for a series of other counts — charges that were not presented by the government but introduced by the soldier himself. In lieu of a laundry list of charges that could put Manning away in prison for life, he hopes the court will convict him of only ten lesser offenses that come with only a maximum sentence of 20 years.
Manning pleaded guilty to unauthorized possession and willful communication of sensitive material, including the hundreds of thousands of State Department cables and other materials provided to WikiLeaks. By pleading guilty, he waves the right to appeal a decision made earlier in the week in which the court ruled that Manning's right to a speedy trial was not violated.
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Bradley Manning (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)QuoteIn explaining himself, Manning told the court that he communicated with unidentified persons he believed to be working for WikiLeaks, and assumed he was speaking with founder Julian Assange. Manning says he only sent the anti-secrecy website material after being rejected by other outlets, however.
While on break from the Army, Manning says he called up the Washington Post and claimed to have materials with "enormous value to the American public." Manning told the judge that he "spoke for 5 minutes about the general nature" of the documents but said, "I do not believe she took me seriously."
Rejected, Pfc. Manning approached The New York Times, an outlet he described as "the largest and most popular newspaper" in the world. "I left a message saying I had access to information about Iraq and Afghanistan that I thought was very important," he said.
"I never received a reply from the New York Times," claimed Manning, even though he left the paper with multiple ways to be reached, including his Skype name.
Believing there were few appropriate conduits for the materials he collected as an intelligence officer, he said WikiLeaks "seemed to be the best medium for publishing this information."
In an interview with British public television, Assange referred to Manning as "America's foremost political prisoner," adding that "the only safe way to get these cowards to publish anything is to get WikiLeaks to do it first."
"All those involved in the persecution of Bradley Manning will find cause to reflect on their actions," Assange asserted.
During pre-trial motion hearings earlier in the case, prosecutors admitted that they would have charged the Times with releasing the information had they published them before WikiLeaks. In January, prosecuting attorney Capt. Angel Overgaard, said, "publishing information in a newspaper [can] indirectly convey information to the enemy." When Col. Lind asked if that would apply to WikiLeaks, Capt. Overgaard said, "'Yes, ma'am."
QuoteEarlier, during this week's pre-trial hearing, those in the Ft. Meade, Maryland, courtroom were told that Manning hoped releasing intelligence to WikiLeaks would "spark a domestic debate on the role of our military and foreign policy in general." Last year, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange credited the materials attributed to Manning with helping end the US war in Iraq.
"If Bradley Manning did as he is accused, he is a hero and invaluable to all of us," Assange said during a December address penned from London's Ecuadorian Embassy. "It was WikiLeaks' revelations — not the actions of President Obama — that forced the US administration out of the Iraq War... By exposing the killing of Iraqi children, WikiLeaks directly motivated the Iraqi government to strip the US military of legal immunity, which in turn forced the US withdrawal."
Among the materials Manning said he handed over were State Dept. cables, Pentagon logs referred to today as the 'Iraq and Afghan War Diaries,' as well as video published by WikiLeaks under the title 'Collateral Murder.' With that release, WikiLeaks showed US soldiers onboard an Apache helicopter opening fire on Iraqi civilians, including a Reuters photographer.
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Members of the Bradley Manning Support Group protest under the rain during a rally at the entrance of Fort George G. Meade military base in Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo/Mladen Antonov)Quote"For me, this seemed similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass," Manning said Thursday of the footage. In regards to the war logs, he said his opinion remains that the releases consisted of "two of the most significant documents of our time." The cables, he added, "documented backdoor deals and seemingly criminal activity that didn't seem" to fit with the public's perception of an ethically-sound America.
"I thought these cables were the perfect example of a need for more open state diplomacy," he said.
Previously, Col. Lind expressed concern over having Manning read a sworn statement, instead preferring for him only to answer questions while on the stand. "He can try to read it, but I am going to stop him" if the contents are not relevant to being guilty of committing the lesser offenses of entered in the plea, she said.
"He understands his statement and he understands the elements he needs to plead guilty," Manning's attorney David Coombs told the judge.
Manning has been detained for over 1,000 days without a formal military trial, and will see the start of his fourth year behind bars this May. The only other time he has spoken publically on the stand was in December 2012, when he testified about the conditions he endured while detained at a military brig in Northern Virginia.
Lind agreed to take 122 days off any eventual sentence for Manning due to the poor treatment. Earlier this week, she dismissed an attempt by the defense to have all charges against Manning dropped over an alleged violation of the 'speedy trial' statute.
http://rt.com/usa/manning-sentence-wikileaks-assange-626/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FOCBCmmP4
The military are not going to give a crap about any of the details of the case whatsoever. They are in full scale mindless, flag waving, canine/human hybrid mode where Manning is concerned, and they will relentlessly expend all necessary effort towards having him crucified, on that basis.
The American military is a thoroughly degenerate institution, at this point; and before you become rabid towards me for making that statement, realise that it has also been made by more intelligent members of the military themselves. The white supremacist racism which has always been prevalent, is systemic at this point; and anyone who opposes it, or worst of all, dares to attempt to make it public outside of the military itself, is regarded as a traitor and considered worse than the enemy themselves.
Manning will never see the light of day again. They will make sure of that; and they will do so regardless of any attempt that the civilian population might make to free him. The real reason why Manning will be made an example of, is not really because he is a traitor, as they claim; but because he threatens the the military's continued lack of accountability to the civilian population; and in so doing, he threatens the military's superiority complex.
The American military are insular, elitist, and above all, view themselves as the epitome of the human race. As I have repeatedly said before, America's belief in her superiority and exceptionalism, constitutes her primary psychological weakness; and anyone who applies pressure to that point (as Manning and Assange both have) will be completely destroyed by her; unceremoniously and without mercy. A wounded animal is the most enraged and dangerous kind; and that is doubly so when the point of the wound itself is attacked.
As ex-military myself, I really would like to argure with you but, alas I have better things to do.
As far as Manning is concerned, he will get everything he deserves.
I really would like to argure with you but, alas I have better things to do.
thank you sarge for helping my perspective..gold gold and more gold for you..
I for one wish sarge would speak up in detail for me as im on the fence but leaning toward brads inocence.
there are no reasonable channels to go through.every time some lbody whissle blows they are demoted or fired or shot .look at all the rape victims in the military.
Wikkileaks was the last choice.his back was against the wall legally.it is his sworn duty to do what he did.he was doing what was ordered.
Sounds backwards but technically it is correct.
Congressional medal for the boy.
As a Marine inactive for over 20 years I would like to give my 2cents. First I would say that petrus and rock are correct. Wow did I really say that :o
I was in boot when a Sgt could beat you down until near death. I wont say much but in nuke training lets say the discipline could get much worse.
I will say that the way that the way our soldiers are trained today is bs. Today drone pilots are trained to call kills bug splats.
In Rocks defence the new kids have no idea as what is going on. I feel sorry for them.
If I go on more I will probally be labeled as a traitor. I love my country and have served it but some strange things are going on that I dint approve of
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