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sunshinepress — April 03, 2010 — Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several others as the Apache shoots and kills them in a public square in Eastern Baghdad. They are apparently assumed to be [...]
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Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from unmanned American drone aircraft, US media reports say. Shia fighters are said to have used off-the-shelf software programs such as SkyGrabber to capture the footage. Iraq insurgents ‘hack into video feeds from US drones’ (via BBC News) More: Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos (via [...]
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How’s that for a provocative headline? It’s also the kind of thing that you hit your forehead for not realizing before: Iraq’s Shiite religious parties, most with ties to Iran, have reestablished a political bloc called the Iraqi National Alliance Of course they have! The only thing keeping Iraqi Shiite’s in check during the Hussein [...]
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Foster-Miller, the maker of gun-wielding robots called “SWORDS” has a s.n.a.f.u. in Iraq: Armed Robots Still in Iraq, But Grounded (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com
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I found a harrowing account of the uniformed death toll in Iraq for the year 2007 accompanied by a handy data visualization: A Year in Iraq – New York Times (via infosthetics.com). Civilian deaths were too numerous to accurately tally, let alone display in the same manner.
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I’ve been sitting on this review for a week or two. I want it to be perfect and polished, but I gotta get it out there so here it is: There are many harrowing scenes to choose from in Charles Ferguson’s 2007 documentary about the Iraq war, No End in Sight, but the one that [...]
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