The Murdered Samaritan's 2 Children Who Were Injured By US Army Attack In Wikileaks' Video Speak Out

Run time: 03:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_5tZqzwXg   Posted on YouTube: April 07, 2010 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 307   Posted on DU: April 07, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1753

 
The US military says it has no reason to doubt the authenticity of a video leaked through the whistleblower website WikiLeaks showing a US military attack on a group of civilians in Iraq.

In the 2007 attack, a US military helicopter fired on a group of Iraqis, killing 12 civilians, according to the website, including two employees of the Reuters news agency.

The footage from a helicopter cockpit also shows Saleh Matasher Tomal stopping to help the injured, but he too is shot dead.

In an Al Jazeera exclusive, Omar al-Saleh speaks to Saeed Saleh Matasher Tomal's children, who were injured but survived the attack.

The family of Reuters driver and assistant Saeed Chmagh who was being rescued by Saleh Matasher Tomal also react after watching the video and call for justice.


Saleh Matasher Tomal, born 1964, He was 43 when he was killed in 2007,
he was married and father of four. He made a living hiring out the mini-van.
It was the family’s source of income.


Saeed Chmagh, 40, was a respected Reuters driver and assistant.
He is survived by his wife and four children and Namir Noor-Eldeen
age 22, who came from a family of journalists and was considered
to be one of the best war photographers in Iraq.

More details: http://www.collateralmurder.org/en/resources.html

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I joined Peace Fresno, in Fresno,CA and then WAMM in Minneapolis.

It is was to do what I could to stop these things from happening.. and they still continue to happen anyhow. Where is the heart of our politicians ?

I am so sick and tired of seeing a Smiling Amy Klobuchar. She is doing nothing to stop the killing of innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. She never meets with the people of Iraq when she goes there. She only meets with the Military.

So many innocent lives. Over 3 Million Orphans in Iraq since we invaded. It is sick. It is Madness.

We elected a president that didnt even promise to end the wars. How are we not all responsible. The fact that some of us are more responsible than others doesnt mean shit to the hundreds of thousands of dead children.

Did our media cover this story yet? Those poor children. And they dropped them off at an Iraqi hospital where the treatment is sub-standard because of the war. They would not take them to a U.S hospital. And then the family had to pay the bills.

Those children are scarred for life, physically and emotionally.

I hope the family refuses to take the usual insulting pay-off and takes this case to court. That's what one of the victims in the Blackwater case did. He refused to accept their insulting offer of a couple of thousand dollars for his beautiful wife. He WAS insulted, and it was his perseverence that brought attention to that case.

To think that this family, after what was done to them, was left to deal with the loss, not just he emotional loss, but the financial loss.

That little girl looks so sad, as if she hasn't smiled for a long time ~ what a horror she has endured and her brother also.

THEY ARE NOT COLLATERAL DAMAGE. They are beautiful children and apparently their father was a good man, the opposite of those who shot him, he wanted to save a life, not destroy it. :cry:

But I have one to give and I give it with only the regret that I don't have more.

PB

"the americans wanted to kill us"

such a tragedy that these children will not forget.

from any viewpoint. While the son is vowing to become like his father and use the camera..more will join with al-Qaeda. This is blowback in the making. Get the hell out. Haven't we made enough orphans!

killing everyone in sight because "WE were attacked". Boo ya!!!

In that regard, I will go to my grave asserting that 9/11 was a false flag operation. That it's not de rigeueur on DU concerns me not at all.

It is a mortal sin, what happened in that video. Hearing those servicemen laugh and say "sweeet" as they blew people's bodies apart sickened me beyond belief. They were playing a video game. I've watched individuals playing video games and that's exactly how they behave.

As if it needs to be repeated, neither the Iraqi people, nor their leader, for that matter, attacked us. Yet we have been raining this horror on them for 7 long years.

What the American people should fear is the possibility that the universe tends toward equilibrium and that you reap what you sow.


Jesus wept.


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Oh...and for those who say that they're killing our soldiers with IED's, my response is, "We're the aggressors, i.e., invaders. If a foreign army invaded this country, I'd be helping make IED's.

I still wonder why we aren't "kicking Saudi butt."

We're not kicking Saudi butt because, from the get-go, the real identity of the (alleged) attackers was irrelevant. Didn't 12 of the 19, or something like that, I forget, have Saudi passports?

In my view, yet more evidence that first we decided we wanted control of the energy resources in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. Then we thought up a "catalyzing event" that would assure public support for invading any country we chose to.

Conveniently, evil IslamoFascists happen to reside in the very same locations where we can exploit the oil, gas, or pipeline construction. It's a twofer!!

17 of the 19 attackers were from countries that either family friends and business partners with the Bush family or connected to Cheney's Halliburton...

17 of 19 is 89%.

But Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11...

I could not have said it better!
I'm so ashamed.:cry: