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Recursion

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27. You get shadows from the dawn in the east

Reply to Junkdrawer (Reply #26)

Thu Aug 8, 2013, 03:16 PM

Aug 2013

So I guess "extremely early morning" is more accurate than "night", but it was after curfew. And the men were armed. The video (and remember Assange cut the 20 minutes of it where men are firing at the helicopter) corroborated the initial report the DoD had done on the incident.

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Edit: sorry, it was 9:30 am Recursion Aug 2013 #25

night vision w/shadows????? Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #26

You get shadows from the dawn in the east Recursion Aug 2013 #27

night vision at 09:53 no less.. frylock Aug 2013 #32

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Edited above. I was wrong about the time Recursion Aug 2013 #35

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