WIKI

The July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrikes were a series of three air-to-ground attacks conducted by a team of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, in the district of New Baghdad in Baghdad, during the Iraq War.(Map View)

The first strike by "Crazyhorse 18" directed 30 mm caliber cannon fire at a group of around ten men alleged to be Iraqi insurgents by the US Army. Two of the victims turned out to be Reuters news staff; Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, whose cameras may have been mistaken for weapons. Nine men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen. Chmagh was initially wounded by Crazyhorse 18.

The second airstrike using 30 mm fire was directed at a van and men attempting to evacuate Chmagh and possibly other survivors. Two children inside the van were wounded, and three more men were killed, including Chmagh.

In the third airstrike, the "Bush" helicopter team deployed three AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, which destroyed a building, after having seen men, some armed and some unarmed, enter the building. An undisclosed number of civilians were killed in this building, including women and children living there and a person walking on the sidewalk.

The attacks received worldwide coverage following the release of 39 minutes of classified cockpit video footage in 2010. Reuters had unsuccessfully requested the footage under the Freedom of Information Act in 2007. The footage was acquired from an undisclosed source in 2009 by the Internet leak website WikiLeaks, which released a shorter, edited version on April 5, 2010, under the name Collateral Murder along with the full version. Recorded from the gunsight Target Acquisition and Designation System of one of the attacking helicopters, the video shows the three incidents and the radio chatter between the aircrews and ground units involved. An anonymous US military official confirmed the authenticity of the footage.

The leaked footage that put Bradley Manning in solitary and WikiLeaks on the firing line is HERE (for the time being at least.)

My gawd, they can be ironic!

for seven years without charge, at Guantanamo.

hahahahahahah
If I didn't laugh so hard, I'd cry

Let's be harnessing the webitizens to insure Assange receives the "UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize at the National Press Club on May 3rd. This prize, determined by an independent jury of international journalists, honors a person, organization or institution that has notably contributed to the defense and/or promotion of press freedom, especially where risks have been undertaken."

He should be able to accept that by Skype from Guantanamo shouldn't he?

Here at the same time and let viewers decide which has more actual free speech.

That is, if Obama doesn't censor us down, cyber attack the servers, and put out a contract on SPK!

The USA has shown where it really stands on freedom of the press issues lately.

And let us not forget the runup to the Iraq War, where the American "Free" Press gave the world flawless lessons in how to mastermind a propaganda campaign.

No, I think this is going to be one of those watered-down, suitable entertainment for the whole family deals. We'll learn how great the Voice of America was in WWII, and they'll be recounts of heros of free speeech in Cold War Russia like Solzhenitsyn.

It will all be so warm and fuzzy and comfortable. The perfect compliment to your Manhattan Holiday weekend!

I predict another Big Government Snoozer event.

We could kick their butts right here, no problem! This and a few hundred other blogs.

There's an idea - we could run an alternative free speech event in the blogosphere at the same time.

Then the world can sit back and watch as the US frantically tries to suppress all of us during Free Speech Week at the UN. Hahahaha!

KKK Membership application

Imagine that. You can join the KKK online (with the help of Visa or MasterCard! I wonder if the Mafia also accepts online applications. Gotta Google that.

I'd kill for a free press beyond Link TV and Free Speech TV!