The Cover-Ups That Exploded

[Jefferson23]

April 9 - 11, 2010

The Pentagon is reeling after two lethal episodes uncovered by diligent journalism show trigger-happy U.S. Army helicopter pilots and U.S. Special Forces slaughtering civilians, then seeking to cover up their crimes.

The worldwide web was transfixed on Monday when Wikileaks put up on YouTube a 38-minute video, along with a 17-minute edited version, taken from a U.S. Army Apache helicopter, one of two firing on a group of Iraqis in Baghdad at a street corner in July of 2007. Twelve civilians died, including a Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and a Reuters driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40.

At a press conference in Washington, D.C., Wikileaks said it had got the footage from whistle-blowers in the military and had been able to break the encryption code. The Pentagon has confirmed the video is genuine.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the U.S. military has finally admitted that Special Forces troops killed two pregnant Afghan women and a girl in a February, 2010, raid, in which two Afghan government officials were also killed. Brilliant reporting by Jerome Starkey of The Times of London has blown apart the U.S. military’s cover-up story that the women were killed by knife wounds administered several hours before the raid.

remainder in full: http://www.counterpunch.org/

[BeFree]

1. The truth comes out

Because people keep digging to get to the truth.

There are way too many in government who try to keep secrets from us. Good democracy demands that the truth be told and journalism, when it is at its best, keeps digging until it finds the truth.

[kenny blankenship]

2. But the pregnant women couldn't be distinguished from men in drag with "suicide bomber" belts!

You blame America types just REFUSE to understand the complexities of conducting a global war on terrorism!

[Greyhound]

3. Sarcasm, I hope?

[kenny blankenship]

4. If you're saying "we can't stab and gut pregnant women" anymore

then you're telling the enemy all they need to destroy America is to put some trannies in fat suits. Just stick dirty bombs under the front hatch covered with a "baby on board" t-shirt and we can't touch them. Great.

Congratulations, you have just secured the global Caliphate for the 12th Imam.

[Greyhound]

5. LOL!

Oh my...

I had to ask because there are more than a couple of "Democrats" here that regularly spout such.

I for one welcome our new Islamic overlords.
:rofl: