ONCE, THE REWARD for leaking to WikiLeaks was nothing more than a clean conscience. Soon, it could also pay tens of thousands of dollars—at least to anyone who possesses video of the most notorious American airstrike in recent memory.
WikiLeaks has now put out a call for crowdfunded donationsto assemble a $50,000 “bounty” for anyone who can give the group video evidence of the U.S. airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 22 people and injured another 37. And WikiLeaks isn’t seeking just any video of the bombing: It wants cockpit footage and internal audio from the Lockheed AC-130 gunship that performed the attack—the same sort of highly classified internal evidence it published in 2010’s internet-shaking “Collateral Murder” video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Iraq.
“The AC-130 records its attacks with high resolution gun cameras. According to military procedure, this footage should have been retained along with the cockpit audio. A post-massacre inquiry report referred to as an ‘AR 15-6′ should have also been commissioned,” reads a statement on WikiLeaks’ website announcing the crowdfunding push. “We are raising a US$50,000 bounty to obtain the footage, the cockpit audio, the inquiry report and other relevant materials such as the Rules of Engagement active at the time.” For the full article click here
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