Leaked video of U.S. troops in Iraq shooting civilians that were mistaken for insurgents caused a [URL=http://wikileaks.org/]WikiLeaks[/URL] spokesperson to compare the footage to a videogame.

The footage in question, which can [URL=http://www.collateralmurder.com/]be viewed here[/URL] if you have yet to see it (warning, it is graphic) shows a pair of Apache helicopters circling a group of people on the streets of New Baghdad in July of 2007. A [URL=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/05/video-appears-forces-firing-unarmed-suspects-baghdad/]Fox News report[/URL] states that the choppers were responding to reports of AK-47 fire in the area. The group of 9-12 people included a pair of Reuters journalists.

U.S. troops apparently mistook cameras and photography equipment for weapons and eventually open-fired, killing an undetermined amount of people, including the two Reuters photographers. A Pentagon spokesperson called the attacks justified and told Fox News that, “The individuals who were killed, apart from the Reuters journalists, were involved in hostile activity.”
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