Collateral Murder Favorite
In July 12 2007, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, two United States Apache helicopters opened fire to a group of men claiming they were armed and dangerous. Two journalists that belonged to Reuters agency, as well as two children, were part of the attacked group.
After several attempts of obtaining the official video through the Freedom on Information Act, in 2010, Wikileaks released two videos showing the attacks’ footage. One, a short version of 17 minutes documented the first parts of the attack and a 39-minute video documenting the whole attack. Videos ere identified as authentic by an anonymous U.S. defense official. The footage was released in a press conference by the name of Collateral Murder.
On June 2010, Democracy Now, an independent news channel transmitted a program where Daniel Ellsberg, Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Glenn Greenwald discuss the videos issues and the role of free information in global contemporary context.