Julian Assange drew both acclaim and scrutiny in 2010 when he published footage of a U.S. helicopter gunning down civilians, including two journalists, in Iraq.
The footage starts with an aerial view of a group of nine men walking along mostly-empty streets in Al-Amin, a neighborhood in Baghdad. Two of them are holding cameras, while two others appear to have weapons.
But just as an explosion of dust fills the screen, Reuters staff photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, can be seen sprinting toward the right before crashing into a heap of trash and falling to the ground. The gunner then fires three more bursts with the cannon, killing Noor-Eldeen as he could be seen trying to stand, The Washington Post previously reported.
Others were critical of Assange. Lisa Lynch, an assistant professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal who has written academic papers on WikiLeaks, described the publication’s coverage at the time as “an audacious attempt to assert themselves into the conversation,”before WikiLeaks published it, but the news outlet was unable to obtain it through a Freedom of Information request because the Pentagon blocked it.
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