{"id":15713,"date":"2012-07-07T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=15713"},"modified":"2012-07-07T17:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T01:22:09","slug":"video-leak-us-attack-helicopter-kills-farmers-while-pilot-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/07\/video-leak-us-attack-helicopter-kills-farmers-while-pilot-sings\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Leak: US Attack Helicopter Kills Farmers While Pilot Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Pie_%28song%29\">Don McLean<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A new video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/view?i=652_1341423015\">LiveLeaks<\/a> shows an AH64 Apache attack helicopter targeting farmers in the Wardak Province, Afghanistan while they were planting poppy seeds. The pilot cheerfully sings a little tune after firing a Hellfire missile at them.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear where the new video came from, but it will draw inevitable comparisons to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2010\/04\/05\/wikileaks-releases-video-of-us-copters-killing-iraqi-civilians\/\">another<\/a> video leaked in 2010, which showed Apache helicopters massacring civilians in metro Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.liveleak.com\/ll_embed?f=16f388965b59\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Don McLean: A new video from LiveLeaks shows an AH64 Apache attack helicopter targeting farmers in the Wardak Province, Afghanistan while they were planting poppy seeds. The pilot cheerfully sings a little tune after firing a Hellfire missile at them. It&#8217;s unclear where the new video came from, but it will draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15713\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15713"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}