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The Collateral Murder of Bagdad
Footage from two thousand and seven shows us apache gun ships unleashing cannon fire on a group of men on a street corner. A short time later, they obliterate a van attempting to evacuate the wounded. The clip was released in april 20 by wicki lieks catapulting the horrors of the arak invasion back into the headlines. They titled it collateral murder, a riff on anodyne military terminology re classifying screaming, bleeding human beings into collateral damage. We know that the acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war. This is the nature of how us Sled wars are carried out in this region.
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