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Yeah, there were. there were people there who 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 n...

Because the very first image i saw was of me running across the screen carrying a child. i was angry just by the initial shock of it being on the tv. but also a little relieved. i wanted people to know what was happening in iraq. >> the same day the video hits the air, the u.s. military releases the report it conducted in the weeks following the 2007 incident. >> the report was heavily redacted. the report basically said we investigated the incident and our guys behaved appropriately. there was no violation, if you will, of the rules of engagement. once you see the video, the conclusion of the...

Of combat that any army will ever face. with that said, there are very clear criterion set up for the use of deadly force. the idea is minimum use of force necessary to counter an adversarial threat. i've seen the video several times. that van should have never been engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. let me be clear. 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, ...

Wikileaks, which had received a leaked copy of the classified video, releases it under the provocative title "collateral murder." >> the video is important in a number of ways. one of them is better scrutiny of how pilots behave when they fire on people. >> they released it in a couple different forms. they released it both in a long form, then a more concise form with the high points or highlighted 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 raid in iraq. >> et...

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 wikileaks, which had received a leaked copy of the classified video, releases it under the provocative title "collateral murder." >> the video is important in a number of ways. one of them is better scrutiny of how pilots behave when they fire on people. >> they released it in a couple different forms. they released it both in a long f...