Wednesday, April 07, 2010
US military: “case closed”
by Larry Geller
This Tweet Just In:
U.S. military plans no further review of helicopter strike in Baghdad that killed civilians in July 2007, considers case closed - NBC News
Let’s see… the YouTube video is at about 4,216,000 views and climbing, so no, the case isn’t closed yet. In the absence of US action, the video has the last word.
Update: While typing the above, four five sequential tweets came in from Jeremy Scahill:
jeremyscahill
Eyewitness to attack told @bignoisefilms day after attack: "we demand that Congress & Bush supervise soldiers' actions."
3 minutes ago via Echofonjeremyscahill Eyewitnesses say when Reuters came, the crowd had spontaneous demonstration protesting lack of gas, water, electricity
3 minutes ago via Echofon
jeremyscahill Just reviewed @democracy_now story for tomorrow. Eyewitness interviews say Iraqis killed were local residents, posed no threat
6 minutes ago via Echofon
jeremyscahill The footage of aftermath of US attack was shot by my man Rick Rowley of @bignoisefilms. Watch @democracy_now tomorrow
11 minutes ago via Echofon
jeremyscahill Breaking: @democracy_now will have big story tomorrow: NEW footage of aftermath of 2007 Iraq helicopter strike on Reuters
12 minutes ago via Echofon
So tune in tomorrow at democracynow.org for further on this story. (YouTube video now over 4,300,000 hits, in just a few minutes.)
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