**CNN** US SOLDIER CHARGED WITH LEAKING CLASSIFIED INFORMATION**

I don't know if this has already been posted, but this is the first I've heard of this. My husband just showed me this video. If you've already seen it, feel free to move on. If you haven't? Well...it's a real 'in your face' eye opener of the casualties of war and the brain washing that goes on in our military with our men and women. The video is disturbing to watch, but even more disturbing is the brain washed callous nature of our soldiers as they joke about their "targets" This is but a mere taste, I'm sure, of what is going on in each American's name:( Time to bring our young men and women home, lest we continue to create more enemies!

Warning: The following story contains a video clip of a mistaken air assault on civilians by the US military. It is not for the squeamish, however it is in black and white and grainy as this happened at night and you're watching it in infrared. But what you see is unmistakable. You have been warned.

[link to www.cnn.com]

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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military has charged a soldier in Iraq who is suspected of leaking a helicopter attack video that shows civilian deaths, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, is being detained in Kuwait and faces charges on eight violations of the U.S. Criminal Code for allegedly illegally transferring classified data, according to a charge sheet released by the military.
It accuses Manning of "wrongfully introducing a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system."
The footage shows an Apache helicopter gunship attack that killed a dozen civilians, including two journalists from the Reuters news service. Their deaths gained the incident international notoriety.
Reuters photographer Saeed Cmagh survived an initial strafing by the Apache gunship's 30 mm machine gun, but he apparently died when the gunship opened fire on people attempting to get him off the sidewalk where he lay, according to the video.