We've mostly all seen the video presented today of the death of several Reuters Journalists in Iraq back in 2007. The coverup attempted by the US Government and the Military has been blown apart in this case. After nearly four years of requesting the video it was released not through the government or the military but through wikileaks who obtained and decrypted a version of the video the Government had thought remained classified.
As soon as they did this the CIA and United States Military was on to them. A series of tweets began last month on the Wikileaks twitter page last month, they were deleted soon after.
WikiLeaks to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am; contact press-club@sunshinepress.org
WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive US and Icelandic surveillance operation. Following/photographing/filming/detaining
If anything happens to us, you know why: it is our Apr 5 film. And you know who is responsible.
Two under State Dep diplomatic cover followed our editor from Iceland to http://skup.no on Thursday.
One related person was detained for 22 hours. Computer’s seized.That’s http://www.skup.no
We know our possession of the decrypted airstrike video is now being discussed at the highest levels of US command.
We have been shown secret photos of our production meetings and been asked specific questions during detention related to the airstrike.
W
e have airline records of the State Dep/CIA tails. Don’t think you can get away with it. You cannot. This is WikiLeaks.
These events were completely ignored by Daily Kos.
Then April 5th came and the video was released.
In 2001 I moved to Leticia, Colombia not of my own will mind you but at the will of my parents, stringent evangelicals and missionaries.
Leticia sits on the border of Brazil and Peru in the Amazonian region, and soon after I had moved there something crazy happened. At that time Fox News was the only network on television in the region but we knew something major had happened before the news broke out in the United States, the rumors had already begun to swirl about the small city.
The Peruvian Military with support of the American CIA had shot down the Bower's plane the day before. Local missionaries working in the region just to the west of Leticia and East of Peru the news was that they had filed flight plans, but the Peruvian air bureaucracy doesn't run exactly like a well oiled machine. Only one person on the plane survived.
It wasn't until earlier this year that video was released. It's been almost nine years now, yes it took that long to get to the truth.
The video may seem a bit familiar if you watched todays footage, and while the Military Aircraft that shot down the innocent plane over the Amazonian Jungle was Peruvian the same sort of cover up followed the event.
9 years from 2007 would be 2016, that is when we would of heard and learned about the truth behind the murder of these innocent civilians in Iraq. Just as just this year we learned of the truth behind the murder of the innocent civilians in Peru.
There is a strong connection between these two events, and no matter how disgusting they are, probably the most disgusting part about them are the cover ups that followed.
Let us not pretend that these are the only cover ups that have occurred, from the Bay of Tonkin to the events surrounding the invasion of Iraq. The major events and the facts behind them continue to be covered up in the name of promoting safety of the American people.
But covering up the crimes of people withing our Military and Government does not protect us, it only makes us weaker and it creates the possibility that in the future; if it has not already happened, such events occurring in America will be covered up.
I personally pray that that day never comes, but we can not wait anymore. Transparency is needed now within our Government. If a person connected with the Government commits a crime he should no longer be protected like the state us doing us some form of favor.
The criminals behind these events in Iraq need to be brought up before a court, just like those criminals behind the events in Peru were. Action must be taken. I for one will not stand for another coverup.