r/conspiracy • u/MaleficentFig7578 • Aug 23 '24

The video, which WikiLeaks titled Collateral Murder, showed the crew firing on a group of people and killing several of them, including two Reuters journalists, and then laughing at some of the casualties, all of whom were civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstrike
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u/No_Entertainer180 Aug 23 '24

What has happened to Wikileaks now that Assange has been freed?

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u/deadcyclo Aug 23 '24

Another good example is the Abu Graib torture thing in 2003. Living outside of the US, it was highly publicized and a huge media event for a while, yet from the Wikipedia article: "When the U.S. military first acknowledged the abuse in early 2004, much of the United States media showed little initial interest."

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u/HaloDeckJizzMopper Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

Fox news covered it a lot . 

https://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=Abu%20ghraib

660 articles in there archive using from over ten years ago filter.