Web of truth

In mid-April, people surfing the Internet were able to witness a gruesome wartime killing. Swedish website Wikileaks posted a graphic videotape of an American Apache helicopter gunning down several men in a Baghdad neighborhood. The story received more than 2 million YouTube views in two days. The Americans mistook the cameras held by Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and his driver, Saeed Chmagh, for weapons and opened fire on the group, believing them to be insurgents. Following the initial assault the Apache also fired on a minivan picking up the wounded, in which two children were sitting. Twelve  people were killed and the children were injured. The principle of Wikileaks, founded in 2006, is to place leaked information online without comment, but to also have the website team verify that material is correct and, in some cases, prepare after-the-fact reports on stories. Wikileaks is funded by private donors and rejects state