In the video below (leaked on the internet and is dated 2007) you can see how a group Iraqi civilians, including two new members of the news agency Reuters, were gunned down by U.S. Apache helicopters. Watch the video here below, don’t know if it will be online very long:

The Web site Wikileaks, which put the autentic images online yesterday, said that the encoded images come from a military whistleblower. Wikileaks subsequently managed to break the code and placed the images on the Internet.

The Pentagon does not want to confirm the authenticity of the video. “At the moment we try to find the source and try to verify the trueness of the video, as well as when and where it was made ‘, said the headquarters of the U.S. military in Iraq. However a spokesman know that soldiers have no reason to doubt that it is fake. The video and audio clips are still compared to see if the video above matches their own recordings.

The organization Wikileaks is fighting against corruption in the American government and businesses by leaking information on the internet.

Between the 4th and the 7th of june 2009 there were held European Parliament elections. They were held in the 27 member states of the European Union. 500 million Europeans are going to be represented by 736 members of the European Parialment and 18 observers.

Overal the EPP-ED (European People’s  Party-European Democrats) are the biggest group in the Parliament with 302 seats, followed by PES (Party of European Socialists) with 180 seats. 3th in the row is ALDE (Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) with 84 seats. 4th are the Non-Incrits (Non-Attached Members, Members of the European Parliament (MEP) who do not sit in one of the political groups): 54 seats, followed by Greens-EFA (European Greens–European Free Alliance) with 45 seats. 6th are EUL-NGL (European United Left–Nordic Green Left) with 34 seats. 7th are UEN (Union for Europe of the Nations) with 32 seats and last are ID (Independence/Democracy) with 18 seats.

There are rumours that the two largest groups in Parliament, the EPP-ED and PES, have already agreed to share the post of President of the European Parliament as they have done for all but two terms of Parliament.

The first half of the term will be taken by Jerzy Buzek MEP of the EPP (who would be the first person from Eastern Europe to hold the post), who will then pass it over to Martin Schulz MEP, the current leader of PES.However, on 26 March 2009, it was reported Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi wanted the EPP’s candidate to instead be Mario Mauro MEP of his party rather than Buzek; bad blood between Berlusconi and Schulz might prevent the PES from consenting to such an arrangement.

For more information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2009