Iraq war logs: Apache attack's child victims speak out
On a hot July day in 2007, taxi driver Salah Mutasher Toman swept his two young children into the passenger seat of his white minivan. He bade his brother, Sabah Toman, farewell and started making his way home, a short drive across the neighbourhood, through militia-held territory.The area had echoed ...
VIDEOS: Systematically Trained Abusive Soldiers
These are videos I took from soldiers of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry. If the name sounds familiar, it should. This was the unit I was in that was also depicted in the “collateral murder” video released by WikiLeaks.I started to “acquire” these videos and some pictures once I ...
360 Degrees of Rotational Fire
When we deployed we were told that the only way for us to effectively maintain control over our AO (area of operation) was to, in a sense, out-terrorize the terrorists. We were to make the people of Iraq fear us and the repercussions from us more so than the insurgents. ...
Support grows for arrest soldier Bradley Manning
The Bradley Manning Support Network is calling on individuals and activists to join in a global action day in support of the 22-year-old US soldier accused of leaking classified information. Bradley, a former pupil of Tasker Milward School, has been held by the American army since May after allegedly releasing ...
VIDEO: Wichita soldier speaks about leaked Iraq video
WICHITA, Kan. — It's a video Ethan McCord says he doesn't have to watch, he see it every time he closes his eyes. But since it was leaked in April, and posted on the website "wikileaks," millions have seen it, including everyone in the conference room at the Wichita library ...
VIDEO: Soldier Appearing In Controversial Video Speaks Out
As the president talks about ending the War in Iraq, a former soldier is speaking out about his role in the war. One Wichita man, who served in Iraq also appeared in a controversial video that went viral. The video captures an attack that happened more than three years ago. ...
I Have Become Uncomfortably Numb
I am numb, I think. Since the U.S. Corporate Military Industrial Complex forced me into the World of the Aware after my son’s murder in Iraq, I feel that the news freshly assaults me on a daily basis. I am numb, I think, from being abused by this Empire on ...
Feces, Urine, Blood, Smoke, and Something Indescribable
The smell was unlike anything I've smelled before, a mixture of feces, urine, blood, smoke, and something else indescribable. That day started out much like many days in Iraq. We were woken up about 2:30 am to prepare for a mission, one of many that seemed pointless. Our Battalion commander ...
From fighting a war to fighting war
ALBANY -- Ethan McCord is now a soldier for peace.The former Army specialist was fighting insurgents in Iraq in 2007 when U.S. Apache helicopters, hovering above him in 110 degrees heat, gunned down a group of armed men, but also civilians and journalists employed by Reuters.McCord, from Kansas, immediately came ...
WikiLeaks Founder Has Massacre Video
Julian Assange, who the Feds fear may release State Dept. secrets, denies having them—but he’s readying video of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan.After several days underground, the founder of the secretive website WikiLeaks has gone public to disclose that he is preparing to release a classified Pentagon video of ...
(This story has been updated to reflect new developments on Assange's whereabouts, including the cancelation of a scheduled appearance in Las Vegas.) Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge ...
If you watch “Collateral Murder” and are shocked, this is a perfectly natural reaction. How the discussion about it is framed however, makes a world of difference. Speaking as a former soldier who was in the company on the ground in the video, who would have been in this video ...
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