Hannah Maguire
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82 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5d ago
Hannah Maguire’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Flying through eastern Baghdad.
The crew opens fire on a group of ten Iraqi men, none of whom are doing anything suspicious, and two of whom turned out to be journalists working for Reuters.
When a van arrives to pick up the bodies, the helicopter opens fire again.
Inside the van was a father, taking his two young children to school.
And apart from how senseless the killings were.
The other thing that really stands out in the video was the gleeful commentary.
You'll hear quotes like Light em up Keep shooting and Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards and much more of that punctuates every gunshot.
And the release of this video was the first time that WikiLeaks directly took on the US military.
It wasn't very winning the hearts and mindsy and the White House were furious.
us the truth.
In october twenty ten, WikiLeaks gained access to almost four hundred thousand classified documents from the US military on its war with Iraq.
And it did not look good for the US.
These documents showed that the military had purposefully covered up information about civilian casualties and systemic torture.
It showed criminal cover ups by the US government and exposed a policy of using its diplomats to spy on other countries' governments.
It also showed that Obama himself had sanctioned a mass handover of the US's Iraqi prisoners of war to Iraqi authorities.
Under the Geneva Convention, a state can't hand a prisoner of war over to another authority that they know commits torture.
And the document showed detailed knowledge of Iraq's brutal history of torture and murder of its prisoners.
Let's, you know, put a very fine point on it.
That's a war crime.
And it's proven
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