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Why we should care about Julian Assange? Because next time they come for us…
Wikileaks co-founder, Julian Assange, in 2010 published information provided to him by then-US Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning that comprised nearly 750,000 classified, or unclassified but sensitive, military and…
- Murray Hunter
- OnLineOpinion
Among those documents was a collateral murder film clip that showed US Apache helicopters killing people in Iraq including two local Reuters news agency employees, exposing a US military cover-up.
The military had claimed that the helicopters were responding to an active firefight and that all killed were insurgents.
The film clip showed otherwise: that a…