9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Fuck. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 One-eight, engage. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Clear, come on! 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Clear. Clear. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Julian Assange]: Why do it? 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Well there's two reasons. One, because it's fun to kill people 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 if you've been in that environment 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 removed from all the effects of killing people for a long time 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's a video game, you want to get a highscore. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The other is, they brag after a kill streak about how many people they killed. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 They go back to base and go "Hey, killed thirteen today". 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Oh yeah, look at that right through the windshield. Ha!] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Oh yeah look at those dead bastards] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Nice] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: When the ground troops arrive they see that there are children in the car 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Well it's there fault for bringing kids to a battle - That's right] 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 After viewing the video hundreds of times, it became almost an obsession 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 to get the identity of the people there 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 We knew the identity of Namir Noor Elden and Samir Chmagh the Reuters employees 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 but for me it was important to establish the identity of the other people there 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 especially the children in the mini-van, we decided it was worthwhile to go there and interview them 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: It turns out that the children survived the attack 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Hrafnsson flies to Baghdad in search of more facts. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (on this corner in the Alamir district of Baghdad on July 12, 2007...) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: He traces the whereabouts of the children and 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 shows the helicopter film to the victim's family. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (He had children in the car, not weapons) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (He got out to help a wounded man. You could see that from the helicopter.) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 I think we could fairly establish fairly well from the journalists point of view 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that the reason why the mini-van was there was basically a coincidence 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that the driver pulled up on the scene because he was driving his kids to tutorial 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (My husband did nothing wrong when he tried to help an injured man.) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (He had the kids with him in the car!) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (For what crime did they shoot him and our innocent children?) 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: On the fifth of April 2010, Wikileaks publishes the collateral murder film 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 the impact is no less that extraordinary. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Disturbing footage apparently showing civilians being killed by the US military in Iraq. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It was leaked from within the defence community to a website. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (The controversial video was published on WikiLeaks). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (WikiLeaks has been called a power factor in the new media landscape). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: By putting all their resources into the helicopter video, 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 WikiLeaks have managed to attract the attention of some of the biggest players in the news business 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 This is precisely what Assange needs to help him handle the rest of the leaked US material 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Julian Assange]: I had been looking at this release and studying it and understand how to 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 come up with a way to deal with such a tremendously large volume of material 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 that would actually not simply drown any one organisation 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: Assange precedes to contact the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 he manages to persuade the chief-editors of these globally respected papers to publish 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 his material in a coordinated fashion, with Assange pulling the strings. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Julian Assange]: What is new is us enforcing cooperation between 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 competitive organisations which would otherwise be rivals. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 To do the best by the story as opposed to simply 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 just doing the best by their own organisation. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: In late July 2010 the Afghanistan reports are published at the same time and day. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 (One of the biggest leaks in military history has triggered outrage). 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 One of the biggest leaks in US military history has exposed several coverups 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 over the war in Afghanistan. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The real story of this material is that it's war. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 It's one damn thing after another. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: The publication material is met with praise, as well as strong criticism. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The defence department demands that WikiLeaks returns immediately 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 all to the US government all versions of documents obtained 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 directly or indirectly from the Department of Defence databases or records 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 [Narrator]: For the first time WikiLeaks are now facing criticism that they're 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 finding hard to respond to. The material includes names of civilian Afghanis, putting 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 them at risk of being targetted by the Taliban. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 potentially severe, and dangerous. 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldiers 9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000 or that of an Afghan family.