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