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A video shows how a U.S. helicopter killed a Reuters photographer

A video released by Wikileaks shows how U.S. soldiers shoot and kill in cold blood and a laugh to 11 civilians, including a photographer and a Reuters journalist in Baghdad. The images challenge the version of the military who saw it as a battle against insurgents .

On July 12, 2007 American soldiers attacked a group of people in New Baghdad. They took weapons chambers of two journalists from Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh, and killed along with 9 others , all civilians, from a helicopter.

After the attack, the United States denied that they knew how journalists had died and only spoke of a confrontation between troops and insurgents.

A military spokesman told the newspaper then The New York Times that "the coalition forces were clearly in the middle of combat operations against a hostile force " and that the actions of the soldiers during the event agreed with the law in armed conflict and rules combat, the U.S. rules on when, where and how the use of force must be used.

Now Wikileaks has published these images, collected by filtration. You can see and hear a helicopter fired at the journalists thinking that their cameras are rockets. Then also shoot against people who come to try to assist them, including two children are seriously injured . After the shooting, heard the soldiers celebrate the deaths.

The video contains the recordings of the helicopter itself which is visible from the air to a group of people moving on foot. The military alleges in the document that several members of this group which included Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh- carry weapons and ask permission to shoot.

Once the target is within range, the aircraft started indiscriminate firing a round of which ended with the death of eleven persons to whom the United States considered, as officer, alleged terrorists, although the images not see any threat and pedestrians seem to be unaware of the presence of U.S. forces.

After the attack, the military to be heard on the recording will boast the success of operation. "Look at those bastards dead," says one of them. He then congratulated him on his party's aim proved.

The U.S. government has already recognized that they are true and the news agency Reuters has published a statement showing its absolute outrage.

More than a million Iraqis have died since the U.S. occupation began in 2003 and displaced over 4 million .

The current conflict in Iraq began in March 2003 with the military attack of an international coalition led by U.S. with the support of Britain and Spain .

The excuse for the invasion was the supposed existence of links between the organization and the regime of Saddam Hussein, so the U.S. president , George W. Bush felt that the Iraqi leader posed a danger to his country and the world order. weapons of mass destruction that the coalition sought have never appeared.

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