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Hay muchas cosas que impresionan de este documento único al que por suerte hemos tenido acceso; aparte de las obvias, hay una cosa que llama poderosamente la atención, y es cómo en un momento se puede ver a una mujer y un niño de la mano caminando juntos por la calle a escasos metros del lugar del crimen; la gente en ese sitio está tan acostumbrada a la violencia y a la guerra que siguen con sus quehaceres cotidianos con total normalidad; la mujer a lo mejor tenía que salir a comprar algo para la comida y lo hace a pesar de que se acaban de cargar a quince personas con un fuego de ametralladora infernal. Terrible.
13 de abril de 2010 — Judge Napolitano on Fox News Freedom watch, reporting on the recent video released by WikiLeaks of Reuters reporters being attached in Baghdad by US forces helicoptors
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Los conflictos son inevitables, por lo tanto no hagamos nada para evitarlos. Aniquilemos inmisericordemente a todo aquel que sea distinto de nosotros o a los que posean recursos que nos sean necesarios.
La agresividad es connatural al ser humano, no hagamos nada para evitar la violencia. ¿Cárceles? ¿Educación? ¿Para qué? Es tirar el dinero, ya que siempre habrá violencia. Cuando un fulano por una simple discusión de tráfico decida apuñalar a otro no nos molestemos en castigarlo ni en hacer absolutamente nada; ¿para qué? si violencia siempre ha habido y siempre habrá.
No me deja colgar el video, pero aquí podéis completo. EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
Son unas entrevistas del día siguiente al ataque que costó la vida a los periodistas de reuters (y de todo el que pasaba por allí)
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EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
As the US Central Command says it has no plans to reopen an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day after the attack. [includes rush tran******]
Guest:
Rick Rowley, independent journalist with Big Noise Films. He has traveled to Iraq frequently as an unembedded journalist since the 2003 invasion. He was at the site of the 2007 helicopter attack the next day.
JUAN GONZALEZ: We begin today with a Democracy Now! exclusive. As the US Central Command says it has no plans to reopen an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we’ll play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day after the attack.
Military lawyers have reportedly been reviewing the classified video of the air strikes released by the website WikiLeaks on Monday. But Rear Admiral Hal Pittman, director of communications at Central Command, which oversees the war in Iraq, said in a statement to Reuters, quote, “Central Command has no current plans to reinvestigate or review this combat action.”
However, CENTCOM did make public a redacted series of records on the case, including investigations days after the attack by the air cavalry and infantry units that were involved in the incident. According to an investigation by the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, the military concluded the aircrew, quote, “accurately assessed that the criteria to find and terminate the threat to friendly forces were met in accordance with the law of armed conflict and rules of engagement.”
The chilling video footage taken from the US military helicopter shows US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqis in the New Baghdad neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh.
AMY GOODMAN: Before we go to the exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses to the attack, I want to play a short clip from that video released by WikiLeaks. This is the moment the US forces first open fire from a helicopter.
US SOLDIER 5: There, one o’clock. Haven’t seen anything since then.
US SOLDIER 2: Just [expletive]. Once you get on, just open up.
US SOLDIER 1: I am.
US SOLDIER 4: I see your element, got about four Humvees, out along this—
US SOLDIER 2: You’re clear.
US SOLDIER 1: Alright, firing.
US SOLDIER 4: Let me know when you’ve got them.
US SOLDIER 2: Let’s shoot. Light ‘em all up.
US SOLDIER 1: Come on, fire!
US SOLDIER 2: Keep shootin’. Keep shootin’. Keep shootin’. Keep shootin’.
US SOLDIER 6: Hotel, Bushmaster two-six, Bushmaster two-six, we need to move, time now!
US SOLDIER 2: Alright, we just engaged all eight individuals.
AMY GOODMAN: Minutes later, the video shows US forces watching as a van pulls up to evacuate the wounded. They again open fire from the helicopter, killing several more people and wounding two children inside the van.
US SOLDIER 1: Where’s that van at?
US SOLDIER 2: Right down there by the bodies.
US SOLDIER 1: OK, yeah.
US SOLDIER 2: Bushmaster, Crazy Horse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly picking up bodies and weapons.
US SOLDIER 1: Let me engage. Can I shoot?
US SOLDIER 2: Roger. Break. Crazy Horse one-eight, request permission to engage.
US SOLDIER 3: Picking up the wounded?
US SOLDIER 1: Yeah, we’re trying to get permission to engage. Come on, let us shoot!
US SOLDIER 2: Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.
US SOLDIER 1: They’re taking him.
US SOLDIER 2: Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.
US SOLDIER 4: This is Bushmaster seven, go ahead.
US SOLDIER 2: Roger. We have a black SUV—or Bongo truck picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.
US SOLDIER 4: Bushmaster seven, roger. This is Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage.
US SOLDIER 2: One-eight, engage. Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: Come on!
US SOLDIER 2: Clear. Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: We’re engaging.
US SOLDIER 2: Coming around. Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: Roger. Trying to—
US SOLDIER 2: Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: I hear ‘em—I lost ’em in the dust.
US SOLDIER 3: I got ’em.
US SOLDIER 2: Should have a van in the middle of the road with about twelve to fifteen bodies.
US SOLDIER 1: Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield! Ha ha!
AMY GOODMAN: The video is from the July 12th, 2007 attack on Iraqi civilians by US troops, released Monday by the website WikiLeaks.org.
Well, independent journalists Rick Rowley and David Enders were on the scene the very next day in 2007 and filed this exclusive report for Democracy Now!
RICK ROWLEY: We came to the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad one day after a US attack helicopter strike that killed twelve Iraqis, including a journalist and a driver working with Reuters. The US military claimed that they were under attack from rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire and that all of the dead, except for the two Reuters employees, were insurgents. But local residents showed us the remains of a burnt-out van spattered with blood and told us a different story.
WITNESS 1: [translated] The helicopter came yesterday from there and hovered around. Then it came right here where a group of people were standing. They didn’t have any weapons or arms of any sort. This area doesn’t have armed insurgents. They destroyed the place and shot at people, and they didn’t let anyone help the wounded.
WITNESS 2: [translated] I swear to God it was helicopters that attacked us. These people are all witnesses. They attacked us twice, not once.
RICK ROWLEY: Another resident went on to describe what happened to the man who tried to help the wounded.
WITNESS 3: [translated] The driver went to carry the injured, who had been shot in front of his eyes. While he was going to pick them up, the pilot of the helicopter kept flying above, watching the scene. They started firing at the wounded and the dead. The driver and the two children were also there. The helicopter continued shooting until none of the bodies were moving.
RICK ROWLEY: We asked the crowd of people what might have prompted the attack, and they said that when the journalist arrived, residents quickly gathered around him.
WITNESS 2: [translated] The group of civilians had gathered here because people need cooking oil and gas. They wanted to demonstrate in front of the media and show that they need things like oil, gas, water and electricity. The situation here is dramatically deteriorating. The journalists were walking around, and then the Americans started shooting. They started shooting randomly and targeted peaceful civilians from the neighborhood.
WITNESS 3: [translated] There were children in the car. Were they carrying weapons? There were two children.
WITNESS 2: [translated] Do we help the wounded or kill them? They killed all the wounded and drove over their bodies. Everyone witnessed it. And the journalist was among those who was injured, and the armored vehicle drove over his ******
WITNESS 3: [translated] The US forces, who call themselves “friendly” forces, were telling us on speakers that they were here to protect and help us. We heard those words very clearly. But what we saw was the opposite of that. We demand the American Congress and President Bush supervise their soldiers’ actions in Iraq.
RICK ROWLEY: For Democracy Now!, this is Rick Rowley and Dave Enders with Big Noise Films.
AMY GOODMAN: Special thanks to Alaa Majeed for assisting with the translation of that piece.
Rick Rowley, joining us now in our studio, independent journalist with Big Noise Films, he’s traveled to Iraq frequently as an unembedded journalist since the 2003 invasion.
So describe when you saw this WikiLeaks footage. You were there the next day in 2007.
RICK ROWLEY: I saw—I first saw the story at midnight and realized that we had been there, and the next morning rushed to check the footage and found that, in fact, it was the same event.
But when we went out there that day, Dave and I, we weren’t looking to document an American massacre. We went to this neighborhood because this is a neighborhood full of refugees. And as soon as we arrived and got out of our car—you know, an experience that will be common to all unembedded journalists—we were instantly surrounded by a crowd of people who took us to where the attack happened and started telling their stories.
JUAN GONZALEZ: So, in other words, when you went there, there hadn’t even been a military or public announcement of what had happened the day before?
RICK ROWLEY: There was a—Reuters had reported it, that it had happened somewhere, but we didn’t know the details, and we certainly weren’t looking for it. We were unembedded doing a story on refugees and happened upon this neighborhood.
JUAN GONZALEZ: But the military initially claimed that it was all insurgents that had died, but obviously, as we have now seen, as the world has now seen from the video, the soldiers in the helicopter realized that children had been killed almost immediately.
RICK ROWLEY: Yeah, I miccionan, the children were injured. They didn’t actually die.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I’m sorry, injured.
RICK ROWLEY: But yeah. I miccionan, the thing that was most chilling to me about this, as an independent journalist who works unembedded often, is that when the reports came out—the military investigations came out a few days later, you can read them all on the internet now—and they basically—I miccionan, essentially they blamed the reporters for causing this. They say they did three things wrong. First, they failed to identify themselves to a helicopter gunship flying, I don’t know, hundreds of feet above their heads. Second, their proximity to armed insurgents was reason for them to be killed. And third, their furtive attempt to take a photograph of American troops.
I miccionan, so, first of all, there is no reason at all to believe or to conclude that any of the people in that picture are armed insurgents. I miccionan, you can see two men with Kalashnikovs, but this is 2007 in Baghdad. This is the height of the civil war, when dozens of bodies a day were being picked up from the street, when sectarian militias filled the Iraqi security forces, the police and the army. Every neighborhood in Baghdad organized its own protection force. And it was legal at the time for every household to own a Kalashnikov in Iraq, and every household I ever went to did. So the presence of two men, dangling at their sides Kalashnikovs, in a crowd of civilians who have no weapons at all, I miccionan, is absolutely no—I miccionan, it’s—the whole thing is ridiculous.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to play, Rick, another clip from the US helicopter footage. Here, the voices in the cockpit laugh as a Bradley tank drives over a body of one of the Iraqi victims.
US SOLDIER 1: I think they just drove over a ******
US SOLDIER 2: Did he?
US SOLDIER 1: Yeah!
AMY GOODMAN: That is from the military’s own footage. Again, this is military footage from the Apache helicopter with those radio transmissions of the soldiers speaking to each other. What did the residents say about that body?
RICK ROWLEY: Yeah, now, I miccionan, I’m a journalist, and I go and talk to people and report what they said. And these residents came and told me that the man who they drove over was alive, that he had crawled out of the van that had been shot to pieces and that he was still alive when the Americans drove over him and cut him in half, basically, with a Bradley or tank or whatever armored vehicle they were driving in.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to link to both the Army documents of their initial investigation, as well as your piece and the WikiLeaks.org footage. WikiLeaks says they got this footage from someone within the military who wanted this information out. Thanks very much, Rick Rowley.
RICK ROWLEY: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: Rick Rowley, independent journalist with Big Noise Films, who has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan frequently as an unembedded journalist. He was at the site of the 2007 attack the next day.
EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
Son unas entrevistas del día siguiente al ataque que costó la vida a los periodistas de reuters (y de todo el que pasaba por allí)
Versión reducida
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EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
As the US Central Command says it has no plans to reopen an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day after the attack. [includes rush tran******]
Guest:
Rick Rowley, independent journalist with Big Noise Films. He has traveled to Iraq frequently as an unembedded journalist since the 2003 invasion. He was at the site of the 2007 helicopter attack the next day.
JUAN GONZALEZ: We begin today with a Democracy Now! exclusive. As the US Central Command says it has no plans to reopen an investigation into the July 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff, we’ll play never-before-seen eyewitness interviews filmed the day after the attack.
Military lawyers have reportedly been reviewing the classified video of the air strikes released by the website WikiLeaks on Monday. But Rear Admiral Hal Pittman, director of communications at Central Command, which oversees the war in Iraq, said in a statement to Reuters, quote, “Central Command has no current plans to reinvestigate or review this combat action.”
However, CENTCOM did make public a redacted series of records on the case, including investigations days after the attack by the air cavalry and infantry units that were involved in the incident. According to an investigation by the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, the military concluded the aircrew, quote, “accurately assessed that the criteria to find and terminate the threat to friendly forces were met in accordance with the law of armed conflict and rules of engagement.”
The chilling video footage taken from the US military helicopter shows US forces indiscriminately firing on Iraqis in the New Baghdad neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news agency: photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh.
AMY GOODMAN: Before we go to the exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses to the attack, I want to play a short clip from that video released by WikiLeaks. This is the moment the US forces first open fire from a helicopter.
US SOLDIER 5: There, one o’clock. Haven’t seen anything since then.
US SOLDIER 2: Just [expletive]. Once you get on, just open up.
US SOLDIER 1: I am.
US SOLDIER 4: I see your element, got about four Humvees, out along this—
US SOLDIER 2: You’re clear.
US SOLDIER 1: Alright, firing.
US SOLDIER 4: Let me know when you’ve got them.
US SOLDIER 2: Let’s shoot. Light ‘em all up.
US SOLDIER 1: Come on, fire!
US SOLDIER 2: Keep shootin’. Keep shootin’. Keep shootin’. Keep shootin’.
US SOLDIER 6: Hotel, Bushmaster two-six, Bushmaster two-six, we need to move, time now!
US SOLDIER 2: Alright, we just engaged all eight individuals.
AMY GOODMAN: Minutes later, the video shows US forces watching as a van pulls up to evacuate the wounded. They again open fire from the helicopter, killing several more people and wounding two children inside the van.
US SOLDIER 1: Where’s that van at?
US SOLDIER 2: Right down there by the bodies.
US SOLDIER 1: OK, yeah.
US SOLDIER 2: Bushmaster, Crazy Horse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like possibly picking up bodies and weapons.
US SOLDIER 1: Let me engage. Can I shoot?
US SOLDIER 2: Roger. Break. Crazy Horse one-eight, request permission to engage.
US SOLDIER 3: Picking up the wounded?
US SOLDIER 1: Yeah, we’re trying to get permission to engage. Come on, let us shoot!
US SOLDIER 2: Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.
US SOLDIER 1: They’re taking him.
US SOLDIER 2: Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.
US SOLDIER 4: This is Bushmaster seven, go ahead.
US SOLDIER 2: Roger. We have a black SUV—or Bongo truck picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.
US SOLDIER 4: Bushmaster seven, roger. This is Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage.
US SOLDIER 2: One-eight, engage. Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: Come on!
US SOLDIER 2: Clear. Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: We’re engaging.
US SOLDIER 2: Coming around. Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: Roger. Trying to—
US SOLDIER 2: Clear.
US SOLDIER 1: I hear ‘em—I lost ’em in the dust.
US SOLDIER 3: I got ’em.
US SOLDIER 2: Should have a van in the middle of the road with about twelve to fifteen bodies.
US SOLDIER 1: Oh yeah, look at that. Right through the windshield! Ha ha!
AMY GOODMAN: The video is from the July 12th, 2007 attack on Iraqi civilians by US troops, released Monday by the website WikiLeaks.org.
Well, independent journalists Rick Rowley and David Enders were on the scene the very next day in 2007 and filed this exclusive report for Democracy Now!
RICK ROWLEY: We came to the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad one day after a US attack helicopter strike that killed twelve Iraqis, including a journalist and a driver working with Reuters. The US military claimed that they were under attack from rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire and that all of the dead, except for the two Reuters employees, were insurgents. But local residents showed us the remains of a burnt-out van spattered with blood and told us a different story.
WITNESS 1: [translated] The helicopter came yesterday from there and hovered around. Then it came right here where a group of people were standing. They didn’t have any weapons or arms of any sort. This area doesn’t have armed insurgents. They destroyed the place and shot at people, and they didn’t let anyone help the wounded.
WITNESS 2: [translated] I swear to God it was helicopters that attacked us. These people are all witnesses. They attacked us twice, not once.
RICK ROWLEY: Another resident went on to describe what happened to the man who tried to help the wounded.
WITNESS 3: [translated] The driver went to carry the injured, who had been shot in front of his eyes. While he was going to pick them up, the pilot of the helicopter kept flying above, watching the scene. They started firing at the wounded and the dead. The driver and the two children were also there. The helicopter continued shooting until none of the bodies were moving.
RICK ROWLEY: We asked the crowd of people what might have prompted the attack, and they said that when the journalist arrived, residents quickly gathered around him.
WITNESS 2: [translated] The group of civilians had gathered here because people need cooking oil and gas. They wanted to demonstrate in front of the media and show that they need things like oil, gas, water and electricity. The situation here is dramatically deteriorating. The journalists were walking around, and then the Americans started shooting. They started shooting randomly and targeted peaceful civilians from the neighborhood.
WITNESS 3: [translated] There were children in the car. Were they carrying weapons? There were two children.
WITNESS 2: [translated] Do we help the wounded or kill them? They killed all the wounded and drove over their bodies. Everyone witnessed it. And the journalist was among those who was injured, and the armored vehicle drove over his ******
WITNESS 3: [translated] The US forces, who call themselves “friendly” forces, were telling us on speakers that they were here to protect and help us. We heard those words very clearly. But what we saw was the opposite of that. We demand the American Congress and President Bush supervise their soldiers’ actions in Iraq.
RICK ROWLEY: For Democracy Now!, this is Rick Rowley and Dave Enders with Big Noise Films.
AMY GOODMAN: Special thanks to Alaa Majeed for assisting with the translation of that piece.
Rick Rowley, joining us now in our studio, independent journalist with Big Noise Films, he’s traveled to Iraq frequently as an unembedded journalist since the 2003 invasion.
So describe when you saw this WikiLeaks footage. You were there the next day in 2007.
RICK ROWLEY: I saw—I first saw the story at midnight and realized that we had been there, and the next morning rushed to check the footage and found that, in fact, it was the same event.
But when we went out there that day, Dave and I, we weren’t looking to document an American massacre. We went to this neighborhood because this is a neighborhood full of refugees. And as soon as we arrived and got out of our car—you know, an experience that will be common to all unembedded journalists—we were instantly surrounded by a crowd of people who took us to where the attack happened and started telling their stories.
JUAN GONZALEZ: So, in other words, when you went there, there hadn’t even been a military or public announcement of what had happened the day before?
RICK ROWLEY: There was a—Reuters had reported it, that it had happened somewhere, but we didn’t know the details, and we certainly weren’t looking for it. We were unembedded doing a story on refugees and happened upon this neighborhood.
JUAN GONZALEZ: But the military initially claimed that it was all insurgents that had died, but obviously, as we have now seen, as the world has now seen from the video, the soldiers in the helicopter realized that children had been killed almost immediately.
RICK ROWLEY: Yeah, I miccionan, the children were injured. They didn’t actually die.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I’m sorry, injured.
RICK ROWLEY: But yeah. I miccionan, the thing that was most chilling to me about this, as an independent journalist who works unembedded often, is that when the reports came out—the military investigations came out a few days later, you can read them all on the internet now—and they basically—I miccionan, essentially they blamed the reporters for causing this. They say they did three things wrong. First, they failed to identify themselves to a helicopter gunship flying, I don’t know, hundreds of feet above their heads. Second, their proximity to armed insurgents was reason for them to be killed. And third, their furtive attempt to take a photograph of American troops.
I miccionan, so, first of all, there is no reason at all to believe or to conclude that any of the people in that picture are armed insurgents. I miccionan, you can see two men with Kalashnikovs, but this is 2007 in Baghdad. This is the height of the civil war, when dozens of bodies a day were being picked up from the street, when sectarian militias filled the Iraqi security forces, the police and the army. Every neighborhood in Baghdad organized its own protection force. And it was legal at the time for every household to own a Kalashnikov in Iraq, and every household I ever went to did. So the presence of two men, dangling at their sides Kalashnikovs, in a crowd of civilians who have no weapons at all, I miccionan, is absolutely no—I miccionan, it’s—the whole thing is ridiculous.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to play, Rick, another clip from the US helicopter footage. Here, the voices in the cockpit laugh as a Bradley tank drives over a body of one of the Iraqi victims.
US SOLDIER 1: I think they just drove over a ******
US SOLDIER 2: Did he?
US SOLDIER 1: Yeah!
AMY GOODMAN: That is from the military’s own footage. Again, this is military footage from the Apache helicopter with those radio transmissions of the soldiers speaking to each other. What did the residents say about that body?
RICK ROWLEY: Yeah, now, I miccionan, I’m a journalist, and I go and talk to people and report what they said. And these residents came and told me that the man who they drove over was alive, that he had crawled out of the van that had been shot to pieces and that he was still alive when the Americans drove over him and cut him in half, basically, with a Bradley or tank or whatever armored vehicle they were driving in.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to link to both the Army documents of their initial investigation, as well as your piece and the WikiLeaks.org footage. WikiLeaks says they got this footage from someone within the military who wanted this information out. Thanks very much, Rick Rowley.
RICK ROWLEY: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: Rick Rowley, independent journalist with Big Noise Films, who has traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan frequently as an unembedded journalist. He was at the site of the 2007 attack the next day.
EXCLUSIVE: One Day After 2007 Attack, Witnesses Describe US Killings of Iraqi Civilians
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Facebook borra la página de WikiLeaks con 30.000 fans
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Wikileaks, que publica y comenta documentos filtrados sobre conductas irregulares del gobierno o de las corporaciones, ha sufrido un poco de la vieja censura que supuestamente no existe en Internet, esta vez por parte de Facebook.
La red social más grande del mundo borró toda la página del sitio web sueco de Facebook con más de 30.000 fans, alegando que promueve actos ilegales. Nos preguntamos, en el caso de que esto sea cierto ¿no debería ser un organismo oficial el que determine esto y baje el sitio en Internet, no sólo en Facebook? ¿O Facebook se considera parte del gobierno global?
Hace unas semanas WikiLeaks mostró un video en que se ve como soldados estadounidenses asesinaban "colateralmente" a un periodista de Reuters en Iraq.
WikiLeak ha publicado en varias ocasiones documentos de la CIA, ¿tal vez sea por esto que Facebook ha bajado su página Facebook cuenta con vinculos indirectamente con la agencia de inteligencia central de Estados Unidos, a través de Peter Thiel , miembro del Club Bilderberg y parte dueño del sitio, y una inversión crucial en sus inicios que hace posible pensar que la CIA (y algunos otros intereses oscuros) es en realidad quien toma las decisiones políticas de Facebook.
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Facebook borra la página de WikiLeaks con 30.000 fans
librexpresion.org
Wikileaks, que publica y comenta documentos filtrados sobre conductas irregulares del gobierno o de las corporaciones, ha sufrido un poco de la vieja censura que supuestamente no existe en Internet, esta vez por parte de Facebook.
La red social más grande del mundo borró toda la página del sitio web sueco de Facebook con más de 30.000 fans, alegando que promueve actos ilegales. Nos preguntamos, en el caso de que esto sea cierto ¿no debería ser un organismo oficial el que determine esto y baje el sitio en Internet, no sólo en Facebook? ¿O Facebook se considera parte del gobierno global?
Hace unas semanas WikiLeaks mostró un video en que se ve como soldados estadounidenses asesinaban "colateralmente" a un periodista de Reuters en Iraq.
WikiLeak ha publicado en varias ocasiones documentos de la CIA, ¿tal vez sea por esto que Facebook ha bajado su página Facebook cuenta con vinculos indirectamente con la agencia de inteligencia central de Estados Unidos, a través de Peter Thiel , miembro del Club Bilderberg y parte dueño del sitio, y una inversión crucial en sus inicios que hace posible pensar que la CIA (y algunos otros intereses oscuros) es en realidad quien toma las decisiones políticas de Facebook.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but will avoid America
US desperate to ask hacker what he knows of classified messages about Iraq and Afghanistan wars
The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not antiestéticar for his safety but is on permanent alert.
Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the electronic whistleblowers' platform WikiLeaks, vanished when a young US intelligence analyst in Baghdad was arrested.
The analyst, Bradley Manning, had bragged he had sent 260,000 incendiary US state department cables on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks.
The prospect of the cache of classified intelligence on the US conduct of the two wars being put online is a nightmare for Washington. The sensitivity of the information has generated media reports that Assange is the target of a US manhunt.
"[US] public statements have all been reasonable. But some statements made in private are a bit more questionable," Assange told the Guardian in Brussels. "Politically it would be a great error for them to act. I feel perfectly safe … but I have been advised by my lawyers not to travel to the US during this period."
Assange appeared in public in Brussels for the first time in almost a month to speak at a seminar on freedom of information at the European parliament.
He said: "We need support and protection. We have that. More is always helpful. But we believe that the situation is stable and under control. There's no need to be worried. There's a need always to be on the alert."
Manning is being held incommunicado by the US military in Kuwait after "confessing" to a Californian hacker on a chatline, declaring he wanted "people to see the truth".
He said he had collected 260,000 top secret US cables in Baghdad and sent them to WikiLeaks, whose server operates out of Sweden. Adrian Lamo, the California hacker he spoke to, handed the tran******s of the exchanges to the FBI.
Manning was promptly arrested in Baghdad at the end of last month and transferred to a US military detention unit in Kuwait. He has been held for more than three weeks without charge.
Assange said WikiLeaks had hired three US criminal lawyers to defend Manning but that they had been granted no access to him. Manning has instead been assigned US military counsel.
While WikiLeaks declined to confirm receipt of the material from Manning, it has already released a film of a US Apache helicopter attack on civilians in Baghdad.
It has also posted a confidential state department cable on negotiations in Reykjavik over Iceland's financial collapse and is preparing to disclose much more material, including film of a US attack that left scores of civilians dead in Afghanistan.
The material is believed to derive from Manning, although WikiLeaks does not reveal its sources and its operations are designed to mask the source of the files it receives.
Prominent US whistleblowers and lawyers have advised Assange to stay out of the US and to be ultra-careful about his travel and public appearances. "Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of [Assange] for antiestéticar that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified state department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security," US web paper the Daily Beast reported 10 days ago.
"We'd like to know where he is – we'd like his co-operation in this," a US official was quoted as saying.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers – a top secret study about the Vietnam war – in 1973, spoke to the Daily Beast.
He said: "I would think that [Assange] is in some danger. Granted, I would think that his notoriety now would provide him some degree of protection."
Assange said: "Some antiestéticar for my life. I'm not one of them. We have to avoid some countries, avoid travel, until we know where the political arrow is pointing."
He added that WikiLeaks had been trying, "unsuccessfully so far", to contact Manning in Kuwait.
"Clearly, a young man is detained in very difficult circumstances with the allegation he is the whistleblower. We must do our best to obtain freedom for him."
Regarding his own predicament, Assange said the US state department had signalled it was not seeking any WikiLeaks people because the Pentagon's criminal investigations command had assumed the lead role in the case.
Apart from preparing much more material for release, WikiLeaks is planning to publicise a secret US military video of one of its deadliest air strikes in Afghanistan in which scores of children are believed to have been killed in May last year.
The Afghan government said about 140 civilians were killed in Garani, including 92 children. The US military initially said that up to 95 died, of whom about 65 were insurgents.
US officials have since wavered on that claim. A subsequent investigation admitted mistakes were made.
In April WikiLeaks released the Baghdad video, prompting considerable criticism of the Pentagon.
The film was edited and produced in Iceland where Assange spends a lot of his time and which last week prepared the most radical and liberal freedom of information legislation anywhere in the world.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Iceland MP and anti-war activist who led the drive for the new laws, co-produced the WikiLeaks version of the Baghdad video.
"I worked on it 18 hours a day through the Easter holidays," she said.
Jonsdottir, a close associate of Assange, said the WikiLeaks founder "went into hiding when the story of Manning's arrest was published".
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but will avoid America | Media | The Guardian
US desperate to ask hacker what he knows of classified messages about Iraq and Afghanistan wars
The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not antiestéticar for his safety but is on permanent alert.
Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the electronic whistleblowers' platform WikiLeaks, vanished when a young US intelligence analyst in Baghdad was arrested.
The analyst, Bradley Manning, had bragged he had sent 260,000 incendiary US state department cables on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks.
The prospect of the cache of classified intelligence on the US conduct of the two wars being put online is a nightmare for Washington. The sensitivity of the information has generated media reports that Assange is the target of a US manhunt.
"[US] public statements have all been reasonable. But some statements made in private are a bit more questionable," Assange told the Guardian in Brussels. "Politically it would be a great error for them to act. I feel perfectly safe … but I have been advised by my lawyers not to travel to the US during this period."
Assange appeared in public in Brussels for the first time in almost a month to speak at a seminar on freedom of information at the European parliament.
He said: "We need support and protection. We have that. More is always helpful. But we believe that the situation is stable and under control. There's no need to be worried. There's a need always to be on the alert."
Manning is being held incommunicado by the US military in Kuwait after "confessing" to a Californian hacker on a chatline, declaring he wanted "people to see the truth".
He said he had collected 260,000 top secret US cables in Baghdad and sent them to WikiLeaks, whose server operates out of Sweden. Adrian Lamo, the California hacker he spoke to, handed the tran******s of the exchanges to the FBI.
Manning was promptly arrested in Baghdad at the end of last month and transferred to a US military detention unit in Kuwait. He has been held for more than three weeks without charge.
Assange said WikiLeaks had hired three US criminal lawyers to defend Manning but that they had been granted no access to him. Manning has instead been assigned US military counsel.
While WikiLeaks declined to confirm receipt of the material from Manning, it has already released a film of a US Apache helicopter attack on civilians in Baghdad.
It has also posted a confidential state department cable on negotiations in Reykjavik over Iceland's financial collapse and is preparing to disclose much more material, including film of a US attack that left scores of civilians dead in Afghanistan.
The material is believed to derive from Manning, although WikiLeaks does not reveal its sources and its operations are designed to mask the source of the files it receives.
Prominent US whistleblowers and lawyers have advised Assange to stay out of the US and to be ultra-careful about his travel and public appearances. "Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of [Assange] for antiestéticar that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified state department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security," US web paper the Daily Beast reported 10 days ago.
"We'd like to know where he is – we'd like his co-operation in this," a US official was quoted as saying.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers – a top secret study about the Vietnam war – in 1973, spoke to the Daily Beast.
He said: "I would think that [Assange] is in some danger. Granted, I would think that his notoriety now would provide him some degree of protection."
Assange said: "Some antiestéticar for my life. I'm not one of them. We have to avoid some countries, avoid travel, until we know where the political arrow is pointing."
He added that WikiLeaks had been trying, "unsuccessfully so far", to contact Manning in Kuwait.
"Clearly, a young man is detained in very difficult circumstances with the allegation he is the whistleblower. We must do our best to obtain freedom for him."
Regarding his own predicament, Assange said the US state department had signalled it was not seeking any WikiLeaks people because the Pentagon's criminal investigations command had assumed the lead role in the case.
Apart from preparing much more material for release, WikiLeaks is planning to publicise a secret US military video of one of its deadliest air strikes in Afghanistan in which scores of children are believed to have been killed in May last year.
The Afghan government said about 140 civilians were killed in Garani, including 92 children. The US military initially said that up to 95 died, of whom about 65 were insurgents.
US officials have since wavered on that claim. A subsequent investigation admitted mistakes were made.
In April WikiLeaks released the Baghdad video, prompting considerable criticism of the Pentagon.
The film was edited and produced in Iceland where Assange spends a lot of his time and which last week prepared the most radical and liberal freedom of information legislation anywhere in the world.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an Iceland MP and anti-war activist who led the drive for the new laws, co-produced the WikiLeaks version of the Baghdad video.
"I worked on it 18 hours a day through the Easter holidays," she said.
Jonsdottir, a close associate of Assange, said the WikiLeaks founder "went into hiding when the story of Manning's arrest was published".
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange breaks cover but will avoid America | Media | The Guardian
Military: U.S. soldier to be charged in leak of strike video – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs
The U.S. military said Tuesday it is pressing criminal charges against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, for allegedly transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system.
Manning of Potomac, Maryland, is suspected of leaking a classified 2007 video of an Apache helicopter strike that killed 12 civilians in Baghdad, including two journalists from the Reuters wire service, the military said.
Manning was deployed with the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, in Baghdad, Iraq, according to the military.
According to Wired.com, Manning leaked the video to the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.com, which posted the video in April. Wired.com reported that Manning confessed to the leak in a series of online chats with a former computer hacker.
He allegedly owned up to leaking other items to WikiLeaks, including a classified Army document assessing the threat level of the website, according to the article, as well as State Department cables.
The U.S. military said Tuesday it is pressing criminal charges against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, for allegedly transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system.
Manning of Potomac, Maryland, is suspected of leaking a classified 2007 video of an Apache helicopter strike that killed 12 civilians in Baghdad, including two journalists from the Reuters wire service, the military said.
Manning was deployed with the 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, in Baghdad, Iraq, according to the military.
According to Wired.com, Manning leaked the video to the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks.com, which posted the video in April. Wired.com reported that Manning confessed to the leak in a series of online chats with a former computer hacker.
He allegedly owned up to leaking other items to WikiLeaks, including a classified Army document assessing the threat level of the website, according to the article, as well as State Department cables.
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WikiLeaks se prepara para publicar un video que prueba una matanza de niños en Afganistán
Su vida puede estar en peligro. Pero Julian Assange, fundador de WikiLeaks, prepara la publicación de otro video clasificado y de proporciones mucho más crueles que el video de la masacre perpetuada desde un helicóptero del ejército de Estados Unidos en Iraq, con un saldo final de 12 muertes, entre ellas las de dos reporteros de la agencia Reuters. Así se lo ha comunicado a su equipo en un correo electrónico.
Assange no se rinde. Desde su escondite prepara el lanzamiento del video con imágenes del ataque aéreo contra la aldea afgana de Garani, que dejó unos 140 civiles muertos, en su mayoría niños y adolescentes. Assange escribe a sus compañeros: “todavía estamos trabajando en los preparativos para el lanzamiento del video de “la masacre Garani”.
Se cree que el vídeo ha sido filtrado por el analista de inteligencia del ejército, Bradley Manning, que permanece arrestado en una base militar de Kuwait. Funcionarios estadounidenses han reconocido que están muy preocupados por el lanzamiento del video de Garani, temiendo que pueda socavar el apoyo público para la campaña militar estadounidense en Afganistán.
Funcionarios del Departamento de Estado están convencidos y alarmados por la posibilidad de que Assange pueda publicar también una enorme biblioteca con los 260.000 cables diplomáticos clasificados que desvelarían informes sobre la corrupción de sus aliados en zonas en conflicto pero también detallada información sobre asuntos tan dispares y delicados como los escandalos sensuales del Vaticano o el denominado Climagate.
Bradley Manning se jactó ante Adrian Lamo, que lo delató, de haber hecho llegar a WikiLeaks dos videos (el ya publicado y el de “la masacre de Garani”) y 260.000 cables con información confidencial enviados desde las embajadas de EE.UU al Departamento de Estado.
Parece que ya le han encontrado un sentido:
EEUU halla un gran yacimiento mineral en Afganistán que cambiaría la guerra | Mundo | elmundo.es
O. PRÓXIMO | Ya la califican de 'la Arabia Saudí del litio'
EEUU halla un gran yacimiento mineral en Afganistán que cambiaría la guerra
ELMUNDO.es | Madrid
Actualizado lunes 14/06/2010 08:26 horas
Geólogos estadounidenses han descubierto en Afganistán un importante e inmenso yacimiento mineral valorado en cerca de 1 trillón de dólares (más de 820.000 millones de euros) que podría alterar fundamentalmente la economía afgana y el plan de guerra en el país.
Según publica el diario estadounidense 'The New York Times', el yacimiento incluye vastas vetas de hierro, oro, niobio y cobalto. Tal es la magnitud del descubrimiento que la industria afgana podría transformarse en una de las más importantes del mundo.
Un memorando interno del Pentágono, por ejemplo, dice que Afganistán podría convertirse en la "Arabia Saudí del litio", una materia prima clave en la fabricación de baterías para ordenadores portátiles y Blackberries.
Aunque se podría tardar años en desarrollar una industria minera, el potencial es tan grande que los funcionarios y ejecutivos de la industria creen que podría atraer grandes inversiones, ofreciendo la posibilidad de puestos de trabajo que podrían desviar la atención de la guerra.
La explotación del yacimiento, efectivamente, llevaría años, pero de lograrse significaría un avance más que significativo en el desarrollo de la economía afgana, hasta el momento sustentada en el comercio del opio.
"Se convertirá en la columna vertebral de la economía afgana", dijo Jalil Jumriany, un asesor del ministro afgano de minas.
En cuanto a la guerra, el Gobierno estadounidense se muestra cauto ya que el descubrimiento podría convertirse en un arma de doble filo. Por un lado, la Administración Obama espera buenas noticias que le permitan salir del país, mientras que otros informes aseguran que el yacimiento en lugar de traer paz y estabilidad, podría llevar a los talibanes a luchar más ferozmente por el rico territorio.
Los yacimientos se encuentran dispersos por todo el país, incluso al sur y al este a lo largo de la frontera con Pakistán, donde se han mantenido algunos de los combates más intensos en la guerra encabezada por Estados Unidos contra la insurgencia talibán.
Otro de los problemas es la corrupción, cada vez más extendida en el Gobierno de Hamid Karzai, y que podría crecer aún más con el nuevo hallazgo, sobre todo si un pequeño grupo de oligarcas, unidos al presidente, se hicieran con el control del yacimiento.
Un ejemplo de ello fue el caso de corrupción que el año pasado salpicó al ex ministro de Minas, el cual fue acusado de recibir un soborno de China de 30 millones de dólares a cambio de los derechos de explotación de cobre en la provincia de Logar.
Sin prácticamente ningún tipo industria minera se necesitarán décadas para que Afganistán pueda explotar bien su riqueza mineral. "Este es un país que no tiene cultura minera", dijo Jack Medlin, uno de los geólogos del descubrimiento. "Han tenido algunas minas pequeñas, pero ésta es muy, muy, muy y se necesitaría algo más que un simple lavado de oro".
Desde luego el ejército usano se está cubriendo de gloria...Pero a ver quién le hace frente. Quienes pudieron e hace 25 años que no están
WikiLeaks se prepara para publicar un video que prueba una matanza de niños en Afganistán
Su vida puede estar en peligro. Pero Julian Assange, fundador de WikiLeaks, prepara la publicación de otro video clasificado y de proporciones mucho más crueles que el video de la masacre perpetuada desde un helicóptero del ejército de Estados Unidos en Iraq, con un saldo final de 12 muertes, entre ellas las de dos reporteros de la agencia Reuters. Así se lo ha comunicado a su equipo en un correo electrónico.
Assange no se rinde. Desde su escondite prepara el lanzamiento del video con imágenes del ataque aéreo contra la aldea afgana de Garani, que dejó unos 140 civiles muertos, en su mayoría niños y adolescentes. Assange escribe a sus compañeros: “todavía estamos trabajando en los preparativos para el lanzamiento del video de “la masacre Garani”.
Se cree que el vídeo ha sido filtrado por el analista de inteligencia del ejército, Bradley Manning, que permanece arrestado en una base militar de Kuwait. Funcionarios estadounidenses han reconocido que están muy preocupados por el lanzamiento del video de Garani, temiendo que pueda socavar el apoyo público para la campaña militar estadounidense en Afganistán.
Funcionarios del Departamento de Estado están convencidos y alarmados por la posibilidad de que Assange pueda publicar también una enorme biblioteca con los 260.000 cables diplomáticos clasificados que desvelarían informes sobre la corrupción de sus aliados en zonas en conflicto pero también detallada información sobre asuntos tan dispares y delicados como los escandalos sensuales del Vaticano o el denominado Climagate.
Bradley Manning se jactó ante Adrian Lamo, que lo delató, de haber hecho llegar a WikiLeaks dos videos (el ya publicado y el de “la masacre de Garani”) y 260.000 cables con información confidencial enviados desde las embajadas de EE.UU al Departamento de Estado.
Parece que ya le han encontrado un sentido:
EEUU halla un gran yacimiento mineral en Afganistán que cambiaría la guerra | Mundo | elmundo.es
O. PRÓXIMO | Ya la califican de 'la Arabia Saudí del litio'
EEUU halla un gran yacimiento mineral en Afganistán que cambiaría la guerra
ELMUNDO.es | Madrid
Actualizado lunes 14/06/2010 08:26 horas
Geólogos estadounidenses han descubierto en Afganistán un importante e inmenso yacimiento mineral valorado en cerca de 1 trillón de dólares (más de 820.000 millones de euros) que podría alterar fundamentalmente la economía afgana y el plan de guerra en el país.
Según publica el diario estadounidense 'The New York Times', el yacimiento incluye vastas vetas de hierro, oro, niobio y cobalto. Tal es la magnitud del descubrimiento que la industria afgana podría transformarse en una de las más importantes del mundo.
Un memorando interno del Pentágono, por ejemplo, dice que Afganistán podría convertirse en la "Arabia Saudí del litio", una materia prima clave en la fabricación de baterías para ordenadores portátiles y Blackberries.
Aunque se podría tardar años en desarrollar una industria minera, el potencial es tan grande que los funcionarios y ejecutivos de la industria creen que podría atraer grandes inversiones, ofreciendo la posibilidad de puestos de trabajo que podrían desviar la atención de la guerra.
La explotación del yacimiento, efectivamente, llevaría años, pero de lograrse significaría un avance más que significativo en el desarrollo de la economía afgana, hasta el momento sustentada en el comercio del opio.
"Se convertirá en la columna vertebral de la economía afgana", dijo Jalil Jumriany, un asesor del ministro afgano de minas.
En cuanto a la guerra, el Gobierno estadounidense se muestra cauto ya que el descubrimiento podría convertirse en un arma de doble filo. Por un lado, la Administración Obama espera buenas noticias que le permitan salir del país, mientras que otros informes aseguran que el yacimiento en lugar de traer paz y estabilidad, podría llevar a los talibanes a luchar más ferozmente por el rico territorio.
Los yacimientos se encuentran dispersos por todo el país, incluso al sur y al este a lo largo de la frontera con Pakistán, donde se han mantenido algunos de los combates más intensos en la guerra encabezada por Estados Unidos contra la insurgencia talibán.
Otro de los problemas es la corrupción, cada vez más extendida en el Gobierno de Hamid Karzai, y que podría crecer aún más con el nuevo hallazgo, sobre todo si un pequeño grupo de oligarcas, unidos al presidente, se hicieran con el control del yacimiento.
Un ejemplo de ello fue el caso de corrupción que el año pasado salpicó al ex ministro de Minas, el cual fue acusado de recibir un soborno de China de 30 millones de dólares a cambio de los derechos de explotación de cobre en la provincia de Logar.
Sin prácticamente ningún tipo industria minera se necesitarán décadas para que Afganistán pueda explotar bien su riqueza mineral. "Este es un país que no tiene cultura minera", dijo Jack Medlin, uno de los geólogos del descubrimiento. "Han tenido algunas minas pequeñas, pero ésta es muy, muy, muy y se necesitaría algo más que un simple lavado de oro".
Desde luego el ejército usano se está cubriendo de gloria...Pero a ver quién le hace frente. Quienes pudieron e hace 25 años que no están
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Que dispararan a un grupo de hombres confundiendolos con insurgentes es un fallo pasable dado que algunos de esos hombres llevaban cosas que claramente parecían armas.
Que dispararan contra la furgoneta que estaba auxiliando a un herido es un crimen sin justificación.
Que dispararan contra la furgoneta que estaba auxiliando a un herido es un crimen sin justificación.