IFJ urges fresh US inquiry over journalist killings video
The International Federation of Journalists has urged US President Barack Obama to open a fresh investigation after a video emerged yesterday showing US troops killing Reuters journalists and civilians in Iraq.
The video, which was posted on whistleblowers website Wikileaks, shows footage taken by a US helicopter gunship as it fired on people in the New Baghdad surburb of the Iraqi capital on 12 July 2007.
Jim Boumelha, IFJ president, said the video was evidence of "calculated, cold-blooded and horrifying violence".
He said: "The United States cannot ignore this atrocity and the killings of unarmed civilians. We insist on a completely new review of these and all the killings of journalists and media staff in the Iraq conflict. -->-->-->
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