page_title: Human rights in post-invasion Iraq
section_title: Human rights abuses by coalition forces
hierarchical_section_title: Human rights in post-invasion Iraq / Human rights abuses by coalition forces
caption_attribution_description: English: Gun camera footage of the airstrike of 12 July 2007 in Baghdad, showing the slaying of Namir Noor-Eldeen and a dozen other civilians by an US helicopter. One frame from 5:00 of this video has been used to measure the position of the sun. The red lines should mark due east-west and due north-south. From examination of the Google Earth version of the map, at the coordinates given in the Wikipedia article, it appears clear that the scene is being viewed from the north. Measurements taken were that the east-west line was +540x, +50y; the north-south line was -85x, +121y; and the telephone pole shadow was +87x, +23y, where x,y are pixels from the upper left corner. These were calculated to mean that the angle of the pole was at tan-1(0.15) and that the sun is 8.5 degrees south of due east. Using this angle, the equation of time to subtract 6 minutes from the local time, and the longitude of Baghdad to subtract 2 minutes (to make it a UTC+3 local time zone), I calculated a time of 6:26 a.m. (not counting daylight savings time). The footage reads 06:23:22. On this basis I believe the helicopter footage is in local time, not in GMT standard time. Note that this conflicts with the U.S. Army report. (see [1]). Note that this "original research" cannot be cited or used in the Wikipedia article by itself, but supports a search for other sources.
context_page_description: Human rights in post-invasion Iraq have been the subject of concerns and controversies since the 2003 invasion. Concerns have been expressed about conduct by insurgents, the U.S.-led coalition forces and the Iraqi government. The U.S. is investigating several allegations of violations of international and internal standards of conduct in isolated incidents by its own forces and contractors. The UK is also conducting investigations of alleged human rights abuses by its forces. War crime tribunals and criminal prosecution of the numerous crimes by insurgents are likely years away. In late February 2009, the U.S. state department released a report on the human rights situation in Iraq, looking back on the past year.
caption: Gun camera footage of the airstrike of 12 July 2007 in Baghdad, showing the slaying of Namir Noor-Eldeen and a dozen other civilians by a US helicopter.
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