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The Incident

What Happened on 12 July 2007

The morning of the airstrike set out in order: who was in the district, why the helicopters were there, and how forty minutes went the way …

5 min readJan 2026
Courts and Consequences

Why Nobody Was Prosecuted Over the Airstrike

Two people went to prison in connection with this video and neither was in the helicopter. The reasons are structural rather than sinister,…

4 min readJan 2026
WikiLeaks and the Release

How WikiLeaks Decrypted and Released the Video

Between receiving an encrypted file and holding a press conference, a small group spent months decrypting it, checking it and sending peopl…

4 min readJan 2026
Whistleblowers and Journalists

Namir Noor-Eldeen: The Photographer Who Was 22

By 22 he was one of the most-used photographers Reuters had in Iraq. He went out to cover fighting in his own city and never came back.

4 min readJan 2026
The War Around It

The Impact of the Iraq War on Civilians: Statistics and Stories

Displacement, infrastructure, medicine, schooling and grief. The casualty figures are the part of civilian impact that is easiest to count …

4 min readMay 2025
WikiLeaks and the Release

How Collateral Murder Influenced Digital Transparency and Government Secrecy

The release pushed hard on the door of government secrecy. The door held, but the shape of the argument about it changed permanently.

4 min readMay 2025
Courts and Consequences

Human Rights Organizations and Their Response to Collateral Murder

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…

4 min readMay 2025
Whistleblowers and Journalists

Bradley (Chelsea) Manning: The Whistleblower Behind the Leak

A 22-year-old intelligence analyst at a base east of Baghdad found the video on a military network and decided the public should see it. Ev…

4 min readApr 2025
Ethics and the Media

The Ethics of Leaking Classified Military Footage

Not a legal question, an ethical one. When is it right to publish something a government has classified, and what test would tell you?

4 min readDec 2024
The War Around It

How the Iraq War Changed Modern Warfare: Lessons Learned

Not the tactics people expect. The lasting changes were about recording, watching and explaining, and this airstrike sits at the centre of …

4 min readDec 2024