Iraq War

Wikileaks: Video Shows 'Murder' Of Iraqis By U.S. Helicopters (VIDEO)

Justin Elliott | April 5, 2010, 5:33PM

A still from the video obtained by WikiLeaks

The group Wikileaks has released a video that it describes as showing "the indiscriminate slaying" by U.S. troops "of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad," including two Reuters employees.

The graphic and disturbing video, which a senior military official told the AP is authentic, shows 17 minutes of footage taken from the air. In it, US helicopters fire on a group of men after concluding that several of them are holding weapons.

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