Namir Noor-Eldeen was one of the most respected Reuters employees in Baghdad. Noor-Eldeen and his driver Saeed Chmagh were killed in eastern Baghdad on July 12, 2007 in an American military action. Reuters/Courtesy of AP-Khalid Mohammed.
“5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff.
Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded.” more…
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