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Some things the human mind is forced to comprehend just can't be lived with, leaving very little recourse for the self preservation of ones own sanity. The choice is there to either die with the guilt of that knowledge, or expose that knowledge for the atrocity that it is.
AN American soldier allegedly responsible for leaking classified footage to whistleblower site Wikileaks has been charged over the incident.
The US Department of Defence said Bradley Manning, 22, was charged with disclosing classified information concerning national defence that could cause injury to the United States and transferring classified data onto his personal computer.
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The Collateral Murder video caused a sensation in April, showing US troops firing from Apache helicopters on supposedly unarmed men in a Baghdad village.
Twelve people were killed in the July 2007 incident, including two Reuters journalists.
The story of how Wikileaks obtained the video has always been held tightly under wraps by site editor Julian Assange, who has maintained that Wikileaks cracked the encryption that allowed it to view the video after it was handed to them in February.
..Manning has been enlisted in the US Army since 2007. His family and friends say he is an intelligence analyst with clearance that would have allowed him access to top secret intelligence.
In the release, the military announced
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