[Peace-discuss] Pentagon murder coverup?

[C. G. Estabrook]

[On News from Neptune on UPTV Friday night (soon online at FB News from Neptune 
and <www.newsfromneptune.com>), you may have heard about the whistleblower web 
site WikiLeaks' plan to release a video that reveals what it's calling a 
Pentagon cover-up of an incident in which numerous civilians and journalists 
were murdered in an airstrike. The video is scheduled to be released tomorrow 
morning (4/5) at 9am EDT at the National Press Club in DC. --CGE]

     Wikileaks to Unveil Secret Video
     * By Nathan Hodge
     * April 2, 2010

On Monday, Wikileaks plans to show classified video of a 2009 U.S. military air 
strike in Afghanistan that reportedly claimed the lives of dozens of civilians.

Existence of the video is no secret. In May 2009, Gen. David Petraeus, the head 
of U.S. Central Command, told National Public Radio that the military planned to 
show part of it in a press briefing. The footage, military officials said, would 
prove that the Taliban deliberately tried to draw U.S. fire onto buildings 
crowded with innocent civilians.

That video was never shown. Now Wikileaks claims it has “cracked the encryption” 
of a copy it obtained. And it says the video will show proof of a “Pentagon 
murder-coverup.”

We haven’t seen the video, but it’s sure to touch off a major debate about press 
freedom and government secrecy. Wikileaks claims that it’s the target of a 
deliberate campaign of surveillance and harassment by Icelandic authorities and 
U.S. spooks. And it’s released an ominous series of tweets that simultaneously 
hype the release of the video, and suggest a government conspiracy to block its 
release...

Read More 
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/hype-conspiracy-or-must-see-tv-wikileaks-to-unveil-drone-video/#ixzz0kBBxpj43

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