Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh
US charges soldier over leaked video of killings in Iraq
Wednesday 07 July 2010
The US military has charged a soldier in connection with the leak of a classified video showing a helicopter attack that killed two Reuters news staff and ten other people in Baghdad.
Bradley Manning, 22, faces two criminal counts including allegations he disclosed classified national defence information, exceeded his authorised access to US computers and transferred classified data onto his personal computer, the military said in a statement on Tuesday. The charges were brought under the military code of justice and could result in a trial by court martial.
Manning, a US Army specialist, was deployed to Baghdad and was held in pre-trial confinement in Kuwait, US officials said when they announced a month ago that he had been detained.
The gunsight video, which shows an attack by an Apache helicopter on a group of men in a square in Baghdad, was made public in April by WikiLeaks, an Internet group that promotes the leaking of information to fight government and corporate corruption.
Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40, were among those killed in the attack.
The leaked video showed an aerial view of men moving through a square in Baghdad. The helicopter opened fire, killing several people and wounding others. A military spokesman said the helicopter crew mistook a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The video also showed the helicopter opening fire on a van carrying unarmed civilians who tried to help those wounded in the first burst of fire.
WikiLeaks said at the time it had obtained the video from military whistleblowers and had been able to view and investigate it after breaking an encryption code.
● SOURCE Reuters
Bradley Manning, 22, faces two criminal counts including allegations he disclosed classified national defence information, exceeded his authorised access to US computers and transferred classified data onto his personal computer, the military said in a statement on Tuesday. The charges were brought under the military code of justice and could result in a trial by court martial.
Manning, a US Army specialist, was deployed to Baghdad and was held in pre-trial confinement in Kuwait, US officials said when they announced a month ago that he had been detained.
The gunsight video, which shows an attack by an Apache helicopter on a group of men in a square in Baghdad, was made public in April by WikiLeaks, an Internet group that promotes the leaking of information to fight government and corporate corruption.
Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver, Saeed Chmagh, 40, were among those killed in the attack.
The leaked video showed an aerial view of men moving through a square in Baghdad. The helicopter opened fire, killing several people and wounding others. A military spokesman said the helicopter crew mistook a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. The video also showed the helicopter opening fire on a van carrying unarmed civilians who tried to help those wounded in the first burst of fire.
WikiLeaks said at the time it had obtained the video from military whistleblowers and had been able to view and investigate it after breaking an encryption code.
● SOURCE Reuters
David Schlesinger: What I want from the Pentagon
Wednesday 21 April 2010
The editor-in-chief wrote in The Guardian about a growing furore over a recently leaked video of the deaths of Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh in Iraq three years ago. His article, published under the headline “War journalists have a right to safety”, follows in full:
When Wikileaks published the harrowing video of the deaths in Iraq of my colleagues Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, the world finally had the transparency it should have had about this tragedy.
It was impossible for me to watch and not feel outrage and great sorrow – but this is not about trying to tell anyone else what to feel. This is about trying to find out exactly what happened and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
What I want from the Pentagon – and from all militaries – is simple: Acknowledgment, transparency, accountability.
Acknowledgment means both understanding at headquarters and training in the field that journalists have a right to be on the battlefield, and not just those embedded with a military unit. A journalist’s mission is to provide understanding, provide context and provide the reporting that citizens deserve. That mission requires journalists cover the story from multiple angles, including ones that potentially put them in harm’s way. A war prosecuted in darkness is a war without accountability. The journalist’s role is vital for a democracy and it must be acknowledged.
Then, there must be acknowledgment that true journalists come in every race, both sexes and a multitude of nationalities. Within Reuters, our 2,800 journalists come from 80 different nationalities. They all have a right to safety.
As too many tragic deaths, including those of Namir and Saeed, have proven, soldiers in tense warfare repeatedly mistake cameras and tripods for weapons. They’re not. There must be a way of training soldiers to distinguish the forms. It is imperative to have the consciousness that the shape in the scope might not be a threat.
Transparency is vital. This is the honesty for all to learn lessons from what has transpired. Soon after the incident, Reuters editors were shown only one portion of the video. We immediately changed our operating procedures – the first portion of the video made clear that anyone walking with a group of armed people could be considered a target. We immediately made it a rule that our journalists could not even walk near armed groups.
However, we were not shown the second part of the video, where the helicopter fired on a van trying to evacuate the wounded. Had we seen it, we could have adjusted our procedures further.
Transparency saves lives.
We have been trying for more than two and a half years to get this video from the military through formal legal means without success and in fact have an appeal to their last denial of our request still pending; now it transpires that officials who repeatedly told us that what the video contained was important enough for security reasons to withhold it from us, made no efforts to secure it and weren’t even clear where it was. It took a whistleblower to make sure the world had the transparency it needed and deserved.
I want the Pentagon to join me in a search for thorough and complete transparency.
Finally there is accountability. There are rules of war as there are in peace. The lack of transparency has meant there’s been absence of accountability.
Let’s dig behind the video. Let’s fully understand the rules the military were operating under. Let’s have a complete picture of what was going through the fliers’ minds. Let’s hear the Pentagon explain its interpretation of the rules of engagement and the Geneva Convention and how the actions either did or did not accord with them in its view. And importantly, let’s keep in mind that while we focus on this particular tragedy, it is the rare circumstance that when a journalist is injured or killed in a conflict area, there is a video of the death, and even more rare as this case demonstrates, for the public to see such a video.
And then let’s have the debate. Seeing the hundreds of articles and thousands of comments in the wake of the video’s release, it’s clear that people on every side of the issue have strong feelings. Let’s have a debate based on fact and not on emotion.
Acceptance, transparency and accountability – these add up to true justice. And that, in the end, is what I am after. I want justice for the journalists who lost their lives.
Justice is not vengeance. Justice is about holding all to account to make sure that proper lessons are learned, that mistakes aren’t repeated and that tragedies don’t happen again.
● SOURCE The Guardian | Reuters Editors
Pentagon chief hits back over leaked attack video
Tuesday 13 April 2010
US defence secretary Robert Gates criticised the Internet group WikiLeaks on Tuesday for releasing a video showing a helicopter attack that killed a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff, in Baghdad.
Gates, who said on Sunday that the video was painful to see, said today there was no context explaining the situation. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. There's no before and there's no after."
The Reuters people killed in the attack were photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40.
Images in the US Army Apache helicopter gunsight video of the 12 July 2007 attack and recorded crew conversation have caused shock since its release on 5 April. Some international law and human rights experts say the crew may have acted illegally.
The US military said an investigation shortly after the incident found American forces were unaware of the presence of news staff and thought they were engaging armed insurgents, mistaking a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Referring to civilian casualties, Gates said "We take these things seriously".
WikiLeaks promotes leaks to fight government and corporate corruption. It said it obtained the encrypted video from military whistleblowers.
The website disputed Gates' contention the video failed to provide context. In an e-mail, it accused the US military of making "numerous false or misleading statements," including the contention there was an active firefight between US forces and those killed.
"Classified records which we will shortly release show that there was a report of small arms fire at 9:50 a.m., somewhere in the suburb of New Baghdad, shooter and location UNIDENTIFIED. There is no reference to U.S. forces having been hit by the fire. The same records report that at 10:18, 28 minutes later, the crowd was seen and the killing commenced."
● SOURCE Reuters
Gates, who said on Sunday that the video was painful to see, said today there was no context explaining the situation. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. There's no before and there's no after."
The Reuters people killed in the attack were photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40.
Images in the US Army Apache helicopter gunsight video of the 12 July 2007 attack and recorded crew conversation have caused shock since its release on 5 April. Some international law and human rights experts say the crew may have acted illegally.
The US military said an investigation shortly after the incident found American forces were unaware of the presence of news staff and thought they were engaging armed insurgents, mistaking a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Referring to civilian casualties, Gates said "We take these things seriously".
WikiLeaks promotes leaks to fight government and corporate corruption. It said it obtained the encrypted video from military whistleblowers.
The website disputed Gates' contention the video failed to provide context. In an e-mail, it accused the US military of making "numerous false or misleading statements," including the contention there was an active firefight between US forces and those killed.
"Classified records which we will shortly release show that there was a report of small arms fire at 9:50 a.m., somewhere in the suburb of New Baghdad, shooter and location UNIDENTIFIED. There is no reference to U.S. forces having been hit by the fire. The same records report that at 10:18, 28 minutes later, the crowd was seen and the killing commenced."
● SOURCE Reuters
Attack video painful to watch, Pentagon chief admits
Sunday 11 April 2010
Video showing US Army helicopters killing two Reuters news staff and 10 other people is painful to watch but a military investigation into the attack was very thorough, US defence secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday.
"It's unfortunate. It's clearly not helpful. But by the same token, I think – think it should not have any lasting consequences," Gates said. The US forces involved were in combat and were operating in split-second situations, he said in Washington on the ABC News television programme This Week.
The Reuters people killed in the 12 July 2007 attack were photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40.
The graphic helicopter gunsight video of the attack has been viewed around the world on the Internet since its release on Monday by WikiLeaks, a website which promotes leaks to fight government and corporate corruption. WikiLeaks said it obtained the encrypted video from military whistleblowers.
Some international law and human rights experts say the Apache helicopter crew may have acted illegally. Many have been shocked by the images and some of the fliers' comments on the video. Amnesty International called on Wednesday for an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into the incident.
"It's obviously a hard thing to see. It's painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. But you – you talked about the fog of war. These people were operating in split-second situations," Gates said.
The US military said an investigation shortly after the incident found that US forces were unaware of the presence of news staff and thought they were engaging armed insurgents, mistaking a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
"We've investigated it very thoroughly," Gates said. The military's central command said last week it had no plans to open a new investigation.
David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief, said: "I urge the secretary of defence to meet with me to help ensure a tragedy like this never happens again. We need to have transparency, accountability and an acknowledgment of the vital role journalists play in telling the story of war."
● SOURCE Reuters
"It's unfortunate. It's clearly not helpful. But by the same token, I think – think it should not have any lasting consequences," Gates said. The US forces involved were in combat and were operating in split-second situations, he said in Washington on the ABC News television programme This Week.
The Reuters people killed in the 12 July 2007 attack were photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40.
The graphic helicopter gunsight video of the attack has been viewed around the world on the Internet since its release on Monday by WikiLeaks, a website which promotes leaks to fight government and corporate corruption. WikiLeaks said it obtained the encrypted video from military whistleblowers.
Some international law and human rights experts say the Apache helicopter crew may have acted illegally. Many have been shocked by the images and some of the fliers' comments on the video. Amnesty International called on Wednesday for an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into the incident.
"It's obviously a hard thing to see. It's painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. But you – you talked about the fog of war. These people were operating in split-second situations," Gates said.
The US military said an investigation shortly after the incident found that US forces were unaware of the presence of news staff and thought they were engaging armed insurgents, mistaking a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
"We've investigated it very thoroughly," Gates said. The military's central command said last week it had no plans to open a new investigation.
David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief, said: "I urge the secretary of defence to meet with me to help ensure a tragedy like this never happens again. We need to have transparency, accountability and an acknowledgment of the vital role journalists play in telling the story of war."
● SOURCE Reuters
No new probe into killing of Reuters news staff - US military
Wednesday 07 April 2010
The US military's Central Command said on Wednesday it has no current plans to reopen an investigation into a helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff.
The two Reuters staff killed in the 2007 attack were photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40.
The graphic helicopter gunsight video of the attack has been widely viewed around the world on the Internet since its release on Monday by the group WikiLeaks. The footage includes an audio track of the conversation between the helicopter crew. Many who have seen it have been shocked at the images and at some of the fliers' comments.
International law and human rights experts who have watched the leaked video – obtained from military whistleblowers – say the Apache helicopter crew in the footage may have acted illegally.
Two US military officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity that lawyers at Central Command have been reviewing the hitherto secret video, which was revealed on Monday by a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption.
"We're looking at a reinvestigation because of a question of the rules of engagement. Were all the actions that are depicted on that video in parallel with the rules of engagement in effect at the time?" one of the officials said.
But Rear Admiral Hal Pittman, director of communications at Central Command, said in a statement to Reuters: "Central Command has no current plans to reinvestigate or review this combat action."
Other officials said Central Command was seeking to play down its role in determining whether to reopen the case because the unit involved was no longer based in Iraq, shifting the onus to Army and Pentagon leaders to make the decision.
Detailed rules of engagement are generally kept classified to avoid tipping off adversaries about tactics on the battlefield, Pentagon officials said.
David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief, said: "I would welcome a thorough new investigation. Reuters from the start has called for transparency and an objective inquiry so that all can learn lessons from this tragedy."
The US military has said an investigation of the incident shortly after it occurred found that US forces were not aware of the presence of the news staffers and thought they were engaging armed insurgents, mistaking a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Human rights lawyers and other experts who have viewed the footage say they are concerned about how the helicopter fliers operated, particularly in opening fire on a van that arrived on the scene after the initial attack and whose occupants began trying to help the wounded.
Chris Cobb-Smith, a former British army officer who has conducted war zone investigations, said knowing what rules of engagement the pilots were operating under was critical to understanding whether they had acted appropriately.
But firing on those who came to help the wounded appeared to be a breach of the laws governing military conduct in war, he said. "That is the element that is blatant. That is against all humanitarian law and the rules of conflict – most definitely and without a doubt," he told Reuters.
Amnesty International called on Wednesday for an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into the incident.
● SOURCE Reuters
The two Reuters staff killed in the 2007 attack were photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40.
The graphic helicopter gunsight video of the attack has been widely viewed around the world on the Internet since its release on Monday by the group WikiLeaks. The footage includes an audio track of the conversation between the helicopter crew. Many who have seen it have been shocked at the images and at some of the fliers' comments.
International law and human rights experts who have watched the leaked video – obtained from military whistleblowers – say the Apache helicopter crew in the footage may have acted illegally.
Two US military officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity that lawyers at Central Command have been reviewing the hitherto secret video, which was revealed on Monday by a group that promotes leaking to fight government and corporate corruption.
"We're looking at a reinvestigation because of a question of the rules of engagement. Were all the actions that are depicted on that video in parallel with the rules of engagement in effect at the time?" one of the officials said.
But Rear Admiral Hal Pittman, director of communications at Central Command, said in a statement to Reuters: "Central Command has no current plans to reinvestigate or review this combat action."
Other officials said Central Command was seeking to play down its role in determining whether to reopen the case because the unit involved was no longer based in Iraq, shifting the onus to Army and Pentagon leaders to make the decision.
Detailed rules of engagement are generally kept classified to avoid tipping off adversaries about tactics on the battlefield, Pentagon officials said.
David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief, said: "I would welcome a thorough new investigation. Reuters from the start has called for transparency and an objective inquiry so that all can learn lessons from this tragedy."
The US military has said an investigation of the incident shortly after it occurred found that US forces were not aware of the presence of the news staffers and thought they were engaging armed insurgents, mistaking a camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Human rights lawyers and other experts who have viewed the footage say they are concerned about how the helicopter fliers operated, particularly in opening fire on a van that arrived on the scene after the initial attack and whose occupants began trying to help the wounded.
Chris Cobb-Smith, a former British army officer who has conducted war zone investigations, said knowing what rules of engagement the pilots were operating under was critical to understanding whether they had acted appropriately.
But firing on those who came to help the wounded appeared to be a breach of the laws governing military conduct in war, he said. "That is the element that is blatant. That is against all humanitarian law and the rules of conflict – most definitely and without a doubt," he told Reuters.
Amnesty International called on Wednesday for an independent, thorough and impartial investigation into the incident.
● SOURCE Reuters
IFJ urges Obama to probe US killing of Reuters news staff
Wednesday 07 April 2010
The International Federation of Journalists has called on President Barack Obama to open a fresh investigation into the actions of the US Army, which has been implicated in killings of journalists in Iraq.
It follows the release on Monday of graphic video footage showing a US helicopter attack on civilians, including two Reuters news staffers, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh.
"This is evidence of calculated, cold-blooded and horrifying violence," said Jim Boumelha, IFJ president. "The United States cannot ignore this atrocity and the killings of unarmed civilians. We insist on a completely new review of these and all the killings of journalists and media staff in the Iraq conflict."
The July 2007 attack was filmed from an Apache helicopter flying over Baghdad. The video was released by WikiLeaks, a US website, which decrypted a version obtained from military whistleblowers.
The IFJ said it reignites the controversy over American military attacks on journalists during the conflict, which were highlighted on 8 April 2003 when US forces fired on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel killing Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian cameraman working for Reuters, and José Couso of the Telecinco network in Spain. Earlier that day US forces attacked the offices of Al-Jazeera in Baghdad, killing reporter Tareq Ayyoub.
“Altogether there have been 19 unexplained killings of media staff at the hands of US soldiers,” said Boumelha. “The administration of Barack Obama cannot duck its responsibility to set aside the white-wash of self-exonerating reporting by the US army. Justice requires that there is no impunity and that the US military is held to account for its actions in Iraq.”
The Brussels-based IFJ represents more than 600,000 journalists in 125 countries.
● SOURCE International Federation of Journalists
It follows the release on Monday of graphic video footage showing a US helicopter attack on civilians, including two Reuters news staffers, photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh.
"This is evidence of calculated, cold-blooded and horrifying violence," said Jim Boumelha, IFJ president. "The United States cannot ignore this atrocity and the killings of unarmed civilians. We insist on a completely new review of these and all the killings of journalists and media staff in the Iraq conflict."
The July 2007 attack was filmed from an Apache helicopter flying over Baghdad. The video was released by WikiLeaks, a US website, which decrypted a version obtained from military whistleblowers.
The IFJ said it reignites the controversy over American military attacks on journalists during the conflict, which were highlighted on 8 April 2003 when US forces fired on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel killing Taras Protsyuk, a Ukrainian cameraman working for Reuters, and José Couso of the Telecinco network in Spain. Earlier that day US forces attacked the offices of Al-Jazeera in Baghdad, killing reporter Tareq Ayyoub.
“Altogether there have been 19 unexplained killings of media staff at the hands of US soldiers,” said Boumelha. “The administration of Barack Obama cannot duck its responsibility to set aside the white-wash of self-exonerating reporting by the US army. Justice requires that there is no impunity and that the US military is held to account for its actions in Iraq.”
The Brussels-based IFJ represents more than 600,000 journalists in 125 countries.
● SOURCE International Federation of Journalists
Thomson Reuters seeks Pentagon meeting over slayings
Tuesday 06 April 2010
Namir Noor-Eldeen, photographer, and Saeed Chmagh, driver, died in a burst of cannon fire from a US Army Apache attack helicopter over Baghdad on 12 July 2007.
A classified military video recording of the killings as seen through the helicopter gunsight was released on Monday by the website WikiLeaks, which said it obtained the encrypted footage from military whistleblowers. The Pentagon confirmed its authenticity. WikiLeaks called it a case of “collateral murder”.
The video shows a US Army Apache repeatedly opening fire on a group of men that included Noor-Eldeen, 22, and Chmagh, 40, and then on a van that stopped to rescue one of the wounded men. None of the members of the group were taking hostile action, contrary to the US Defence Department’s initial cover story.
Schlesinger told staff there was no better evidence of the dangers each and every journalist in a war zone faces at any time.
"We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the men and women of Reuters news who put themselves on the front line to tell the story; we mourn and remember each of our colleagues who has died – our books of remembrance that we keep in our main offices are grim reminders of the sacrifices too many have made over the many decades and many conflicts."
It is impossible to watch and listen to the video dispassionately, Schlesinger said. "I struggle with my emotions the way I’m sure many of you struggle as well," he added.
"I believe that we as an organization and I as an individual must fight for journalists’ safety. I will continue to campaign for better training for the military – to help as much as possible to teach the difference in form between a camera and an rpg or between a tripod and a weapon. I will continue to press for thorough and objective investigations. I will continue to insist that governments the world over recognize the rights of journalists to do their jobs. I will continue to ensure that our rules and operating procedures are the safest in the industry.
"In this particular case, Tom Glocer and I want to meet with the Pentagon to press the need to learn lessons from this tragedy.
"These stories are not easy for us to report or to be involved in. They test our commitment to viewing events and actions objectively.
"What matters in the end is not how we as colleagues and friends feel; what matters is the wider public debate that our stories and this video provoke."
● Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh Memorial
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● Namir Noor-Eldeen tribute | SLIDESHOW
Video released showing US Army's killing of Reuters news staff
Monday 05 April 2010
The classified military video depicting the killings on 12 July 2007 was released by the website WikiLeaks, which called it a case of “collateral murder”. It said it obtained the video as well as supporting documents from military whistleblowers.
Julian Assange, editor of WikiLeaks, unveiled the video at the National Press Club. He said the crew of the attack helicopter approached its job as if it were a video game, not something involving human lives. Their desire was simply to kill, he said. "Their desire was to get high scores on that computer game."
Video of the incident from two Apaches and photographs taken of the scene were shown to Reuters editors in Baghdad on 25 July 2007 in an off-the-record briefing. Reuters had been seeking release of the video, shot from a helicopter gun-sight, through the US Freedom of Information Act. After demands by Reuters, the incident was investigated and the military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own rules of engagement.
The military did not reveal how the Reuters staff were killed, and stated that they did not know how two young children were wounded.
The video shows a US Army Apache repeatedly opening fire on a group of men that included photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, pictured, both Iraqi, and then on a van that stopped to rescue one of the wounded men. None of the members of the group were taking hostile action, contrary to the Pentagon's initial cover story. They were milling about on a street corner.
Crew members can be heard celebrating their kills. "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards," says one crewman after multiple rounds of 30 mm cannon fire left nearly a dozen bodies in the street. A crewman begs for permission to open fire on the van and its occupants, even though it has done nothing but stop to help the wounded: "Come on, let us shoot!" Two crewmen share a laugh when a Bradley fighting vehicle runs over one of the corpses. And after soldiers on the ground find two small children shot and bleeding in the van, one crewman can be heard saying: "Well, it's their fault bringing their kids to a battle."
The New York Times reported the military's official cover story as follows:
The American military said in a statement late Thursday that 11 people had been killed: nine insurgents and two civilians. According to the statement, American troops were conducting a raid when they were hit by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. The American troops called in reinforcements and attack helicopters. In the ensuing fight, the statement said, the two Reuters employees and nine insurgents were killed. "There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force," said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a spokesman for the multinational forces in Baghdad.
Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer said in a statement after the slayings: “Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh’s outstanding contribution to reporting on the unfolding events in Iraq has been vital. They stand alongside other colleagues in Reuters who have died doing a job that they believe in.”
David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief, said in a statement today: “The deaths of Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh three years ago were tragic and emblematic of the extreme dangers that exist in covering war zones. We continue to work for journalist safety and call on all involved parties to recognise the important work that journalists do and the extreme danger that photographers and video journalists face in particular. The video released today via WikiLeaks is graphic evidence of the dangers involved in war journalism and the tragedies that can result."
● SOURCE Collateral Murder | Reuters | The New York Times
● Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh Memorial
