Dramatic and disturbing video of a U.S. military Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad three years ago that killed 12 people, including two Reuters news employees, has been released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
The release on Monday of the classified footage from the July 2007 attack, recorded by helicopter gun cameras, comes just two weeks after a leak to the website of a classified U.S. counterintelligence report identifying WikiLeaks as a potential threat to national security.
"The intentional or unintentional leaking and posting of U.S. Army sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org could result in increased threats to [Department of Defence] personnel, equipment, facilities, or installations," says the report, written in March 2008. "Such information could be of value to foreign intelligence and security services, foreign military forces, foreign insurgents, and foreign terrorist groups for collecting information or for planning attacks against U.S. forces, both within the United States and abroad."
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