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Former Reuters journalist speaks out about US attack that killed colleagues

Thirteen years ago in Iraq, US soldiers in an attack helicopter killed 11 people in what the US described at the time as a firefight — nine were insurgents and two were employees of the Reuters news agency — a photojournalist and a fixer.

A cockpit video captured the killings and was later leaked to Wikileaks.

The release of that footage, called “Collateral Damage”, showed the US military targeting the journalists and made WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a household name.

He’s now detained in a British prison, facing extradition to the US on espionage charges.

— source abc.net.au | 16 Jun 2020

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