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>> all individuals are contained. getting ready to fire. >> we got a guy shooting. now hes behind the building. >> the helicopter crew gets permission from the commanding officer on the ground to fire on the group. >> clear. all right. firing. >> line them up. >> come on, fire. [ gunfire ] >> theyre running. >> keep shooting. >> the apache fires and fires and fires into this group of guys. it appears that theyre all dead right away. >> look at those dead bastards. >> nice. >> a few minutes pass ...

>> complete on one. >> caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel the networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we went to the koran...

Dressed similarly, the pilots dont realize that two of them are journalists. photographer amir nouradeen and his driver. the apache soldiers seem to mistake amirs camera for a rocket-propelled grenade. >> hes got an rpg. >> weve got a guy with an rpg. >> i want to fire. >> all right. lets hold on. lets come around to our point of view. >> all individuals are contained. getting ready to fire. >> we got a guy shooting. now hes behind the building. >> the helicopter crew gets permission from the co...

And then there was gunfire everywhere. richard and another soldier and i raced back to the humvee. >> the bullets are pinging off the side of the humvee. >> as im between this rock and the humvee, and redden is walking backwards, so the two of us are behind this humvee, im walking forward and hes walking backwards filming me and im trying to prevent him from falling and then getting run over by the vehicle or shot. >> my mind is racing because we need pictures, but you cant have pictures unless ...

Thats the great thing about being a cameraman. we have this amazing power with this thing that we hold in our hand to record life. >> i dont like war. i dont like seeing war. i dont like going to war. but war happens. and i think its important to see war up close as a society, to understand about our human nature. war has its own dynamic that is also fascinating, is also grotesque and is also beautiful in some respects. because you see the chivalry that comes out. the chivalry that is gone in al...

War caught on camera. correspondents in the heat of battle. >> i remember hearing it, bing, bing, bing, as the bullets are hitting the side of the humvee. >> troops recording the danger they face every day. >> oh! >> my first instinct was that i just lost three soldiers and a vehicle. >> come on, fire. >> and a classified military video that stuns the world. in this hour, troops from the front lines to their front lawns. >> i think he remembers you. >> war, up close. "caught on camera: combat." ...

Are you on the edge of war? >> well, we hope not. and thank you, greta, for mentioning what led to this stro take. we have to remember that this chief of terror operations of hamas, jabari, is like the hamas bin laden. he has been terrorizing israel for 7 years, actually intensifying terror against us. and what we have done is actually a preventive measure to make sure that life for a million israelis in our southern towns will be safer. we do hope that this will not escalate and its very much u...

>> well, we hope not. and thank you, greta, for mentioning what led to this preemptive strike that we had to take. we have to remember that this chief of terror operations of hamas, jabari, is like the hamas bin laden. he has been terrorizing israel for 7 years, actually intensifying terror against us. and what we have done is actually a preventive measure to make sure that life for a million israelis in our southern towns will be safer. we do hope that this will not escalate and its very much u...

Richard and another soldier and i raced back to the humvee. >> the bullets are pinging off the side of the humvee. >> as im between this rock and the humvee, and bredden is walking backwards, so the two of us are behind this humvee, im walking forward and hes walking backwards filming me and im trying to prevent him from falling and then getting run over by the vehicle or shot. >> my mind is racing because we need pictures, but you cant have pictures unless youre filming. and in fact, richard an...

>> all right. youre clear. >> all right, firing. >> let me know when you got him. >> line them all up. >> come on, fire. >> theyre running. >> keep shooting. >> the apache fires and fires and fires into this group of guys. it appears that theyre all dead right away. >> look at those dead bastards. >> nice. >> a few minutes pass and the reuters employee begins crawling away. >> hes got that guy crawling right now on the curb. >> i got him. i put two rounds near him. theyre shooting over there, to...