This frame grab image from classified US military gun camera footage, shot from a US army Apache helicopter and released by whistleblower website Wikileaks.org on April 5, 2010, shows a group of men, including two believed to be Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, in a Baghdad street on July 12, 2007, just before the group was fired upon by the helicopter, killing Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh. The video included audio conversations between Apache pilots and ground controllers in which they identify the men in a Baghdad street as armed insurgents and ask for permission to open fire. Wikileaks said it had obtained and decrypted the video
This frame grab image from classified US military gun camera footage, shot from a US army Apache helicopter and released by whistleblower website Wikileaks.org on April 5, 2010, shows a group of men, including two believed to be Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, in a Baghdad street on July 12, 2007, just before the group was fired upon by the helicopter, killing Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh. The video included audio conversations between Apache pilots and ground controllers in which they identify the men in a Baghdad street as armed insurgents and ask for permission to open fire. Wikileaks said it had obtained and decrypted the video "from a number of military whistleblowers" but did not provide any further information about how it got ahold of the footage, which it posted at Wikileaks.org and on YouTube. Marked on the video image are some identifications and a transcript of the pilots' communications. AFP PHOTO/Wikileaks.org == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE == © AFP | AFP
This frame grab image from classified US military gun camera footage, shot from a US army Apache helicopter and released by whistleblower website Wikileaks.org on April 5, 2010, shows a group of men, including one believed to be Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen (C), 22, in a Baghdad street on July 12, 2007, just before the group was fired upon by the helicopter, killing Noor-Eldeen and his driver Saeed Chmagh, along with several others. The video included audio conversations between Apache pilots and ground controllers in which they identify the men in a Baghdad street as armed insurgents and ask for permission to open fire. Wikileaks said it had obtained and decrypted the video
This frame grab image from classified US military gun camera footage, shot from a US army Apache helicopter and released by whistleblower website Wikileaks.org on April 5, 2010, shows a group of men, including one believed to be Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen (C), 22, in a Baghdad street on July 12, 2007, just before the group was fired upon by the helicopter, killing Noor-Eldeen and his driver Saeed Chmagh, along with several others. The video included audio conversations between Apache pilots and ground controllers in which they identify the men in a Baghdad street as armed insurgents and ask for permission to open fire. Wikileaks said it had obtained and decrypted the video "from a number of military whistleblowers" but did not provide any further information about how it got ahold of the footage, which it posted at Wikileaks.org and on YouTube. Marked on the video image are some identifications and a transcript of the pilots' communications. AFP PHOTO/Wikileaks.org == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE == © AFP | AFP
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2007, file photo a U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter flies as the sun sets over Baghdad, Iraq. The State Department is quietly forming a small army to protect diplomatic personnel in Iraq after U.S. military forces leave the country at the end of 2011 and take their firepower with them. Patrick Kennedy, the Defense Department's under secretary for management, has asked that 50 bomb-resistant vehicles, 24 Black Hawk helicopters, heavy cargo trucks, fuel trailers, and high-tech surveillance systems be transferred from military stocks to the State Department. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2007, file photo a U.S. army Black Hawk helicopter flies as the sun sets over Baghdad, Iraq. The State Department is quietly forming a small army to protect diplomatic personnel in Iraq after U.S. military forces leave the country at the end of 2011 and take their firepower with them. Patrick Kennedy, the Defense Department's under secretary for management, has asked that 50 bomb-resistant vehicles, 24 Black Hawk helicopters, heavy cargo trucks, fuel trailers, and high-tech surveillance systems be transferred from military stocks to the State Department. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File) © AP | AP
In this handout picture released by the US army in Iraq on February 17, 2010, Sergeant Donn Pattermann (C), from Hayward, Wis., a CH-47F Chinook helicopter crew chief in the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, observes Iraqi Army Karkh Area Command Strike Team soldiers exiting a Chinook during an air assault training exercise on February 15 in Camp Taji, north of Baghdad. The 1st ACB will put the KAC soldiers through multiple training scenarios and events during a 13-day cycle with a culminating air assault training mission at the end. Taji is a detention facility, near the Iraqi capital, holding approximately 3,000 inmates. AFP PHOTO/HO/US ARMY/SGT. TRAVIS ZIELINSKI -- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE --
In this handout picture released by the US army in Iraq on February 17, 2010, Sergeant Donn Pattermann (C), from Hayward, Wis., a CH-47F Chinook helicopter crew chief in the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, observes Iraqi Army Karkh Area Command Strike Team soldiers exiting a Chinook during an air assault training exercise on February 15 in Camp Taji, north of Baghdad. The 1st ACB will put the KAC soldiers through multiple training scenarios and events during a 13-day cycle with a culminating air assault training mission at the end. Taji is a detention facility, near the Iraqi capital, holding approximately 3,000 inmates. AFP PHOTO/HO/US ARMY/SGT. TRAVIS ZIELINSKI -- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE -- © AFP | AFP