Court-martials, indictments, extradition hearings and the question nobody has answered: who was held responsible?
Two people went to prison in connection with this video. Neither of them was in the helicopter. That single fact is the argument of this section, and it is worth sitting with before reading anything else in it.
If you are new to the subject, these in this order will give you the whole of it. The main pages come first because everything else refers back to them.
Everything filed under this topic, newest work first.
Two people went to prison in connection with this video and neither was in the helicopter. The reasons are structural rather than sinister,…
In 2019 the United States charged a publisher under a 1917 espionage law for obtaining and publishing classified material. That had never h…
Fourteen years of litigation ended in a single day in a courtroom on a Pacific island, with a guilty plea, a sentence of time served, and a…
Fourteen years across four legal fronts, in three countries, over two entirely separate sets of allegations. Here it is in order.
The case is over and the questions it raised are not. Where things actually stand, and what is still unresolved.
The major human rights and press-freedom bodies all reacted to the footage. What they asked for, what they got, and why their response ende…
Each answer below is the summary; the link goes to the page that sets it out against the record.
The rest of the archive, and where each one picks up.
What happened in the sky and on the street in New Baghdad on 12 July 2007, phase by phase.
The people who were killed doing journalism, and the people who risked everything to make the footage public.
How the footage got out, how it was published, and what it did to the idea of a government secret.
What a camera in a gunsight does to an audience, and what news organisations owe the people in the frame.
Baghdad in 2007, the surge, the counting of the dead, and why one morning in one district looked the way it did.
The war that began on 28 February 2026, and the strike on a girls' school in Minab that became its defining atrocity.
The incidents that set the terms for how civilian deaths in war are counted, argued about and answered for.
