With WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange still in hiding there is growing speculation, fueled by comments from Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir, that the release of Wikileaks’ next classified US military video is imminent.
WikiLeaks has been reported to be in possession of the video in question for months, which shows the May 5 2009 US air strike against a village in Farah Province.
Afghan investigators concluded that the attack killed upwards of 140 civilians, and that more than half of them were children. The US claimed the villagers deliberately exaggerated the toll to get more compensation from the military.
While massive death tolls in air strikes have been pretty common over the course of the Afghan War, the repeated changes in official US stories on the incident (including an initial claim that the whole attack was a myth invented by the Taliban) and the secrecy surrounding the internal probe, the video could deal a massive blow to the claims about the attack.
The wildcard in all of this is comments from officials that the military “didn’t follow the rules” in the Farah killings, which given the shocking nature of the last WikiLeaks video, which the Pentagon insists shows troops acting appropriately, has sparked enormous speculation about what the video might reveal.
Ive followed the publishing of wikileak- as well as a number of sites that publish obviously somewhat credible stories that face fierce oposition from the guilty. It is my opinion that the supression of such information is little more than a lie…If someone is prepared and willing to stop others from learning of their actions- especially when they are purportedly carried out in the name of some supposed act of justice….then there is something obviously very wrong going on…I may be backwards, but I tend to also have the opinion that for every action that escapes the eyes of the world…there are likely many more that we will never know of…it seems that the general thinking is that we have laws to protect us, and that they will reveal violations as they occur…OJ is innocent….
I will pump my fist in the air at the spit in the face of war mongering empire when the second video is released. Go wikileaks you along with the leakers themselves are truly the heroic Daniel Ellsberg of the 21st century.
The scoundrels are afraid to have some of their crimes out in the open?
I can well remember a few of my flights between Frankfurt and Chicago where those
bastards were bragging about their killings of innocent people!
These are no bad examples, this is the system which turns humans into animals.
The Pentagon will also insist that troops act appropriately in any new video, and more people will hear the dull repetition of "propriety" from their protectors than ever pay much attention to the video.
""exaggerated the toll to get more compensation…" Yes, those scheming Afghans. They'll do anything to rip off the brutal occupiers. Jesus f**king Christ, I'm disgusted with my country.
Yeah… a couple of thousand dollars a head is "exaggerating"! Hell… the weapons themselves cost more than the lives they destroy. But, as our overlords like to remind us, who's counting!
Julian Assange is a courageous and highly esteemed individual, who will be remembered for
years to come. The truth of what these horrendous wars are all about will trump all the lies
Obama and his henchmen say… War on Terror, Wars of Necessity, etc,etc. We should encourage all leakers to keep on leaking! Right now , it's our only hope of turning the world
around to see how these morally bankrupt wars are destroying this magnificent world we live
in! Viva Wikileaks!
To think it only took about what, nine years for the war criminality to "leak." The truth was there all along. Of course, one did have to hunt and search and stay the hell away from the infotainment shills. New York Times, Washington Post, ABCBSCNNBCMSNBC, and the ugly truth was there leering at all of us. Let us pray that Julian keeps his wikileaking fanny out of airplanes for the foreseeable future. He is a "wanted" man. Oh yeah. Julian should release every last ugly detail, video, State Department memoranda, and let the chips fall where they may. Which of course in the U.S., that won't be too very far. Not too many pay much attention these days. Oh wait, America wasn't paying so much attention all along. For at least nine years and probably longer than that.
Thank you Jason, Eric, Justin, and ALL the unmentioned "small" people that man the com at antiwar.com. Oh yeah, and Matt. Sorry Matt I almost forgot.
This shows that the US military is a perverted institution which not only kills but also lies. When one sees the crimes they commit against defenseless populations, one doesn't need to be Muslim or from the Middle East to hate this arrogant and criminal monster and to want its demise.
Please Julian, stay safe, and keep bringing bringing the truth to the world. Thank God for brave people like you!
Please Julian and all who bring us the truth, stay safe, and please keep it up. The only hope we have is for brave people like you all to share the truth with the world. And, hopefully, your courage will inspire others who are in posession of other truth media, to share it with the world. Again, please stay safe, we need people like you in this world.
Don’t worry Wolfgang I bet some of those trash murders probably committed suicide by now, or trashed a family member and is behind bars.
Supression is what all governments do to protect their personal mana’s, conceal crimes, and to project what they want to think,hear, see and feel. Look up Ho Chi Minh’s letter to President Truman. Truman classified it as ‘top secret’ for 27 years. Great letter!