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5 Apr, 6 tweets, 3 min read
WATCH: The Video That Changed Everything.

11 years to the day, @wikileaks published the "Collateral Murder" showing Iraqi civilians, among them children and two Reuters journalists gunned down by a US Apache helicopter in Baghdad, 2007. The soldiers can be heard laughing and joking as they also shoot the rescue vehicle.
Dean Yates was Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters at the time. When probing the US military about the death of his colleagues, was only shown the first few minutes of the video. He never knew the truth about this incident until Wikileaks published the video.
Chelsea Manning @xychelsea provided the video to @wikileaks– video which wasn't even classified. The US military didn't even care to classify its own war crimes– something Pentagon Papers whistleblower @DanielEllsberg pointed out during Assange's hearing.
The US says it's going after Assange for publishing the Rules of Engagement– not for exposing war crimes like the Collateral Murder video (yeah right)– yet the two are frankly indivisible as they show how randomly and carelessly US troops were killing Iraqi.
It's crucial for all to see this video and understand its significance. It destroys the entire notion the US was in Iraq for "democracy". It's why Manning & Assange went to jail while the criminals who pulled the triggers and started the wars never will.

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Western govts can’t stand foreign outlets informing their populace, esp in English.
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A year later they changed its name to what you all know as British Petroleum (BP).
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Can you imagine Russian, Syrian or Lebanese diplomats participating in rallies in the US? We'd never hear the end of it.
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Indeed. A lot of this weird stuff I see in the US is so far removed from the original Christian faith and how it's practiced in the Levant, where it originated.
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If Syria bombed israel every week there would be a world war but of course they get special treatment from US & co

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