1 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead. 2 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck 3 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage. 4 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Fuck. 5 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One-eight, engage. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Clear, come on! 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Clear. Clear. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Julian Assange]: Why do it? 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Well there's two reasons. One, because it's fun to kill people 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 if you've been in that environment 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 removed from all the effects of killing people for a long time 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a video game, you want to get a highscore. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The other is, they brag after a kill streak about how many people they killed. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They go back to base and go "Hey, killed thirteen today". 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Oh yeah, look at that right through the windshield. Ha!] 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Oh yeah look at those dead bastards] 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Nice] 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: When the ground troops arrive they see that there are children in the car 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Well it's there fault for bringing kids to a battle - That's right] 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 After viewing the video hundreds of times, it became almost an obsession 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to get the identity of the people there 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We knew the identity of Namir Noor Elden and Samir Chmagh the Reuters employees 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 but for me it was important to establish the identity of the other people there 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 especially the children in the mini-van, we decided it was worthwhile to go there and interview them 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: It turns out that the children survived the attack 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Hrafnsson flies to Baghdad in search of more facts. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (on this corner in the Alamir district of Baghdad on July 12, 2007...) 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: He traces the whereabouts of the children and 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 shows the helicopter film to the victim's family. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (He had children in the car, not weapons) 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (He got out to help a wounded man. You could see that from the helicopter.) 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I think we could fairly establish fairly well from the journalists point of view 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that the reason why the mini-van was there was basically a coincidence 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that the driver pulled up on the scene because he was driving his kids to tutorial 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (My husband did nothing wrong when he tried to help an injured man.) 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (He had the kids with him in the car!) 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (For what crime did they shoot him and our innocent children?) 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: On the fifth of April 2010, Wikileaks publishes the collateral murder film 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the impact is no less that extraordinary. 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Disturbing footage apparently showing civilians being killed by the US military in Iraq. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It was leaked from within the defence community to a website. 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (The controversial video was published on WikiLeaks). 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (WikiLeaks has been called a power factor in the new media landscape). 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: By putting all their resources into the helicopter video, 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 WikiLeaks have managed to attract the attention of some of the biggest players in the news business 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is precisely what Assange needs to help him handle the rest of the leaked US material 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Julian Assange]: I had been looking at this release and studying it and understand how to 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 come up with a way to deal with such a tremendously large volume of material 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 that would actually not simply drown any one organisation 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: Assange precedes to contact the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 he manages to persuade the chief-editors of these globally respected papers to publish 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 his material in a coordinated fashion, with Assange pulling the strings. 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Julian Assange]: What is new is us enforcing cooperation between 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 competitive organisations which would otherwise be rivals. 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 To do the best by the story as opposed to simply 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 just doing the best by their own organisation. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: In late July 2010 the Afghanistan reports are published at the same time and day. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 (One of the biggest leaks in military history has triggered outrage). 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 One of the biggest leaks in US military history has exposed several coverups 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 over the war in Afghanistan. 63 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The real story of this material is that it's war. 64 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's one damn thing after another. 65 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: The publication material is met with praise, as well as strong criticism. 66 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The defence department demands that WikiLeaks returns immediately 67 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 all to the US government all versions of documents obtained 68 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 directly or indirectly from the Department of Defence databases or records 69 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 [Narrator]: For the first time WikiLeaks are now facing criticism that they're 70 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 finding hard to respond to. The material includes names of civilian Afghanis, putting 71 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 them at risk of being targetted by the Taliban. 72 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are 73 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 potentially severe, and dangerous. 74 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good 75 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they 76 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldiers 77 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 or that of an Afghan family.