http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/wikileaks-logs-war-crimes/In its early analysis of the Iraq war logs released by whistleblower site WikiLeaks on Friday, the German paper Der Spiegel pointed to several accounts of what it calls "dubious attacks" by US Apache helicopters that may have amounted to war crimes.
One of those accounts has to do with an attack that featured in video released by WikiLeaks last spring. The "Collateral Murder" video shows an Apache repeatedly firing on a group of men which included a Reuters photographer and his driver -- and then firing again on a van which stopped to help, killing that vehicle's driver and wounding his two young children.
Despite these bloody consequences, the brief summation of the incident in the newly released documents refers only to ""13 AIF KIA" -- meaning "thirteen anti-Iraq forces killed in action."
Iraq War Logs Reveal Details of Dubious Apache Attacks
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,724819,00.html#ref=rss
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