[Peace-discuss] Pentagon murder coverup?

[C. G. Estabrook]

Not clear. There is a helpful Wikipedia article (not surprisingly, I guess).


On 4/5/10 3:57 AM, John W. wrote:
> WikiLeaks.com is based in Iceland, then?
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 7:14 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>
> [On News from Neptune on UPTV Friday night (soon online at FB News from
> Neptune and <www.newsfromneptune.com <http://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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