On 30 July 2007, the BBC programme Panorama broadcast a show on how street violence between children as young as 11 was being posted on websites including LiveLeak. This, among others, earned the site a mention from White House Press Secretary Tony Snow as the likely place to see updates or stories from active American soldiers. LiveLeak first came to prominence in 2007 following the filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein. History Cockpit video of a Hellfire missile being fired at targets in Afghanistan The URL was changed to redirect to ItemFix, another video sharing site. LiveLeak aimed to freely host real footage of politics, war, and many other world events and to encourage and foster a culture of citizen journalism. The site was founded on 31 October 2006, in part by the team behind the shock site which closed on the same day. LiveLeak was a British video sharing website, headquartered in London. It was then that Wahabzadah said he returned to the mosque to discover the scope of the violence.Various co-founders including Hayden Hewitt He said he continued chasing after him but the shooter did a U-turn and raced off. “When he sees me I am chasing with a gun, he sat in his car”, Wahabzadah said. “And I just got the gun and throw it on his window like an arrow and blast his window. He thought probably I shot him or something and then he drive off." Wahabzadah told CNN he ran after the shooter and picked up a discarded weapon of the gunman, which he described as a “shotgun." He threw it at the gunman’s car, shattering his window. Wahabzadah said the shooter then dropped his weapon and ran back to his car. Wahabzadah said he thought the shooter went to get more weapons from his car. Wahabzadah’s four children were inside the mosque. “I was screaming at the guy, ‘Come here, I’m here’," Wahabzadah told CNN. "I just want him to put more focus on me than go inside the masjid (“mosque”). But unfortunately, he got himself to the masjid.” He threw the credit card reader at the suspect while shouting at him in an attempt to distract the shooter away from the mosque. Wahabzadah grabbed a credit card reader and ran outside the building.
(AP/Mark Baker)Ībdul Aziz Wahabzadah says he was inside Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, when a gunman opened fire. Multiple people were killed during shootings at two mosques full of people attending Friday prayers. Police stand outside a mosque in Linwood in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15.
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