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Meaning the reuters journalists. according to the statement, before the apaches opened fire, american troops were conducting a raid nearby when they were hit with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. reuters conducts its own investigation and can find no one in the area who saw any clashes that day. one week later the news organization demands an official u.s. investigation. it also specifically requests access to the apache on board cameras and voice communications. all their requests are denied. the government makes no further comment on the incident until three years later when wi...

Soldiers make it back to the command post, but as they return, the men get the news they had been dreading, one member of their company, sergeant john penich, was killed in the incident. >> they were devastated. they were absolutely devastated. and i knew what it was going to mean for these soldiers, because i knew the bonds that they had among the unit and the fact that they'd done this themselves by accident. i'm still in touch with soldiers from the unit, and it still bothers them tremendously. they haven't gotten over this. and probably never will. >> engel and his crew spend more than a y...

Engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. again, let me be very clear here. the presence of a weapon in the battlefield does not constitute a threat. it constitutes a weapon. you got to determine if the weapon is tied to someone who is threatening you. >> everybody's fighting over it, whether or not they had weapons. well, they had weapons, no, they didn't. this was murder, no it's not, it's war. in a sense everybody is right but everybody is so wrong at the same time. what you're looking at is a small black and white video of a much larger issue. >> following the apache incident, speci...

>> they released it in a couple different forms. they released it both in a long form, then a more concise form where the high points, if you will, were highlighted during the incident. the effect of that release was devastating. >> the u.s. military is trying to explain a newly leaked video that shows apache helicopters killing civilians during a 2007 raid in iraq. >> ethan mccord has just dropped off his children at school when he gets the news. >> came home. sat down on the couch with my cup of coffee. turned on the news. it's insane. because the very first image i saw was of me running acr...

Wanted to hurt us. but it just doesn't make sense to me. because i was there. >> the day after the attack, the u.s. military releases a statement confirming the deaths of, quote, nine insurgents and two civilians, unquote. meaning the reuters journalists. according to the statement, before the apaches opened fire, american troops were conducting a raid nearby when they were hit with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. reuters conducts its own investigation and can find no one in the area who saw any clashes that day. one week later the news organization demands an official u.s. inve...