Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. I was up on a rooftop at that time. I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. When they arrived, they found a scene of fresh carnage the scattered remains of a group of men, believed to be armed, who had just been gunned down by Apache attack helicopters. Towards the end of the show, the star actor became an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and after he left "Adam-12." "[76], Captain Jack Hanzlik, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command stated that the airstrike video "gives you a limited perspective, [it] only tells you a portion of the activity that was happening that day. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. This is why we called it Collateral Murder. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. She was crying. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. US soldiers Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story of coming across the aftermath of the infamous Wikileaks Collateral Murder in which over a dozen innocent civilians, 2 of which were Reuters journalists, were killed. [22], In the video on the morning of July 12, 2007, the crews of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters observe a gathering of men near a section of Baghdad in the path of advancing U.S. ground troops, some armed with AKMs and RPGs. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. [58], On July 25, 2007, during an off-the-record briefing in Baghdad by the U.S. military, two Reuters editors were shown "less than three minutes of video from the Apaches gun camera, up to the exact moment it opened fire the first time." They're smoking you, they're making you tired. The event was covered by Al Jazeera English and Reuters,[16] and later by The Washington Post,[82] The New York Times,[2] The Christian Science Monitor,[83] the BBC,[66] and CNN. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Ethan and Josh claim that though their unit was following the Rules of Engagement that day, they are taking responsibility for their role in the incident and initiating a dialogue around it; "Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. [19] This account of first bringing the wounded children to the Combat Support Hospital appears to be contradicted by orders by radio that form part of the video record, which forbids it and orders that the children be handed over to local police. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. It's very clear that that is the approach, to try and find any mechanism to excuse the behavior, and that is what ended up happening. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. McCord: I have never seen anybody being shot by a 30-millimeter round before. I've spoken with other soldiers who were there. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. The boy's alive!" "[112], On April 5, 2010, the same day as the release of the video footage by WikiLeaks, the United States Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, released a collection of documents including two investigative reports. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. We are doing what we can to speak out against the wars and military policies responsible for what happened to you and your loved ones. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. He's no longer in the Army. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". Ethan McCord who says he scooped up the children and at least one of his comrades say the incident revealed the bankrupt brutality of the war. Series of air-to-ground attacks conducted in New Baghdad during the Iraqi insurgency, An AH-64 Apache helicopter, the type used in the attack, Arrest, convictions and sentencing of Manning, Attack on personnel and a van per U.S. Army report account, Attack on building per U.S. Army report account, Julian Assange's comments regarding U.S. Army report, List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War 2007, "In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency', "Video Shows U.S. Ethan was on the ground at the scene of the shooting, and is seen on the video rushing one of the injured children to a U.S. However, the co-pilot/gunner then observed a child and some other non-combatants in the vicinity of the individuals and decided to hold off on the engagement until the non-combatants were clear. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw", "Redacted internal US Army report: "Investigation into Civilian Casualties Resulting from an Engagement on 12 July 2007 in the New Baghdad District of Baghdad", "WikiLeaks releases video of slaughter in Iraq", "Military shooting of Reuters men online", "Joan Smith: Now we see what war does to those who wage it", "US soldier on Baghdad airstrike: "Not out of the ordinary in Iraq", "2 soldiers in 'Collateral Murder' video apologize. More than a dozen people were killed in three attacks captured in the video, including two Reuters journalists, one carrying a camera that was apparently mistaken for a weapon. [32] The legal review carried out by the U.S. Army stated that the two children were evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital via Forward Operating Base Loyalty, then transferred to an Iraqi medical facility the next day. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." That stays with you. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. McCord: My platoon sergeant knew that I was having a hard time with it and that same night he came into the room and he told me, hey, just so you know, both of the children survived, so you can suck it up now. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. That classified video created its own firestorm when the whistleblower site Wikileaks posted it April 5 on a website titled "Collateral Murder" and asserted that the attack was unprovoked. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. Just from looking into the van, and the amount of blood that was on the boy and the father, I immediately figured they were dead. In an interview on NPR on April 6, the day after the Collateral Murder video release, David Finkel said that the Reuters reporters were not embedded with anyone, but working independently. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. One of the first soldiers on the scene after the air attack, Ethan McCord, is now the subject of a short documentary, Incident in New Baghdad, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. I was trying to wash it off in my room. I think that the people could have been deterred from doing what they were doing in the van by simply firing a few warning shots versus completely obliterating the van and its occupants.[52][53]. She wrote that the co-pilot urged a dying, unarmed journalist to pick up a weapon as he tried to crawl to safety and that "the Apache crew open[ed] fire on civilians". As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. You joke about the situations and what's happened to push away your true feelings of the matter. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. [88], McCord requested mental health assistance following his experiences on July 12, but was told by his superior officers to "get the sand out of [his] vagina" and to "suck it up and be a soldier". The military said that the van was "fair game under Army rules" , because it had no visible markings to suggest it was an ambulance or a protected vehicle. "[32], The Guardian stated "It is unclear if some of the men are armed but Noor-Eldeen can be seen with a camera". Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. There had been running gun battles. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. [94], WikiLeaks said they were unable to confirm whether or not Manning was the source of the video, stating "we never collect personal information on our sources", but saying that "if [Manning is the] whistleblower then, without doubt, [s]he's a national hero"[95] and "we have taken steps to arrange for [her] protection and legal defence". McCord: I would be smoked. [81] I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. [17] Politifact stated: "When Assange points out in the context of justifying the title 'Collateral Murder' that the word 'RPG' was not used until after permission to engage was given, he leaves the impression that the soldiers were given the okay to open fire on a group of unarmed men, or men believed to be unarmed. As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. The company was supported by two Apache helicopters from the 1st Cavalry Division's Aviation Brigade, call signs "Crazyhorse 1/8" and "Crazyhorse 1/9". Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. On June 7, 2010, The New Yorker reported that Kristinn Hrafnsson, an investigative reporter who worked on the Collateral Murder video and later became a spokesman for WikiLeaks,[54] said he had found the owner of the building involved in the incident. [18][19][25] Once the group is eliminated, the Apache pilots direct the ground troops to move up to the position of the attack to clear the area. The Washington Post has denied having any copy of the unedited video prior to WikiLeaks release of their edited version, and Finkel (who was on book leave from The Washington Post at the time) said that he has never made any statement about his sources for the story, except that it was "sourced from unclassified information and my presence in the area that day". That classified video created its own firestorm. Solemnly and Sincerely, Josh Stieber, former specialist, U.S. Army Ethan McCord, former specialist, U.S. Army. Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. [2], After the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement", WikiLeaks released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing the rules before, during, and after the attacks. Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" incident have written an open-letter of "Reconciliation and Responsibility" to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees. We have asked our fellow veterans and service-members, as well as civilians both in the United States and abroad, to sign in support of this letter, and to offer their names as a testimony to our common humanity, to distance ourselves from the destructive policies of our nation's leaders, and to extend our hands to you. But youyou talked about the fog of war. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. They heard about something, they came to it and they just wantedfrom everything I've learned since, they were just there to get that side of the story. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. "[31], In May 2011 the Barcelona Human Rights Film Festival awarded the investigative film Collateral murder, Hellfire, done by Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks spokesperson, and Ingi Ingason, with the award for International Journalism and Human Rights. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. It also states that "The cameras could easily be mistaken for slung AK-47 or AKM rifles, especially since neither cameraman is wearing anything that identifies him as media or press". There is no bringing back all that was lost. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. The video makes plain that in this incident, as in almost all military encounters in both Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers are up against forces that do not wear uniformsa violation of international law precisely because it places innocent civilians in jeopardy. [118][119], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}331849N 443043E / 33.3137N 44.512E / 33.3137; 44.512 (Airstrike of 2007-07-12). Josh Stieber was not at the scene of the shooting but says similar incidents happened throughout his 14-month tour; "The acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war." If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? Their age, their weapons, and the fact that they were within the distance of the forces that had been engaged made it apparent these guys were potentially a threat. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. Those guys could have just been protecting their area". When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. I just kept telling him, "Don't die; don't die." "[111] An article at Gawker stated that Reuters reporter Luke Baker had written an article claiming that the airstrikes may have been war crimes, but Reuters refused to run the story. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" The Wikileaks videos also do not reveal the hundreds upon hundreds of cases in which American forces refrain from attacking targets precisely because civilians are in harm's way.[80]. The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. It happened because my content was bad. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. The second strike, also using 30mm rounds, was directed at a van whose driver, Saleh Matasher Tomal, appeared to happen to drive by and who proceeded to help the wounded Chmagh. There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. [18] A long shadow cast on the ground by a telephoto lens on Noor-Eldeen's camera is misidentified by the pilot as an additional RPG aimed at him and a U.S. Army Humvee directly below his aircraft. When the cameraman on the ground aimed his camera in the direction of Bravo Company 216, a pilot remarked "He's getting ready to fire". Bill Keller of The New York Times wrote, "But in its zeal to make the video a work of antiwar propaganda, WikiLeaks also released a version that didn't call attention to an Iraqi who was toting a rocket-propelled grenade and packaged the manipulated version under the tendentious rubric Collateral Murder. I wasn't thinking about it as much. Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded. "The first thing I thought of was my children at home". New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. However, I do know some soldiers went in to clear that building afterwards and there were some people with weapons in there, but there was also a family of four that was killed. After the video was released, one of the soldiers involved in the incident, Ethan McCord, stated the following: "If you feel threatened in any way, you're able to engage that person. McCord admits that she was sad to go because she had been there for a decade and a half, but that "it wasn't the end of the world" and that she wasn't worried for "a nanosecond" that . [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. On 19 April 2010, Ethan McCord, who appears on the ground in the video, and Josh Steiber, a member of the same company who was not present on the day, wrote an open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People apologising for the events in the video. [110], Mark Taylor, an international law expert and a director at the Fafo Institute for International Studies in Norway, told Al Jazeera "there's a case to be made that a war crime may have been committed." [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. Stuff like that happens on a daily basis in Iraq. I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. Two men assisting in the rescue effort were from a group of five standing at an intersection seen in the upper right corner of the video when the Reuters employees arrive in the courtyard reported to Apaches as being a second position combatants were using to attack the Humvee. In July 2007, McCord, a 33-year-old Army specialist, was engaged in a firefight with insurgents in an Iraqi suburb when his platoon, part of Bravo Company, 2-16 Infantry, got orders to investigate a nearby street. Wired.com: There was another attack depicted in the video that has received little attention, involving a Hellfire and a building that was fired on. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. [43] It concluded that an investigating officer would want to know how the armed men were identified as combatants from the earlier engagement; would question the nature of the collateral-damage estimate carried out by the crew before the missiles were launched; and would wish to determine whether a missile attack was a proportionate response to the threat. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. There's no easy way to kill somebody. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. The company was charged with clearing their sector of any small armed forces, and had been under fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? He added, "I think what this video shows is really a case that challenges whether the laws of war are strict enough. The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". Advertisement. 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That's why so many soldiers come back home and they're no longer in the situations where they have other things to think about or other people to joke about what happened and they explode. [113], The report states that at least two members of the group which were first fired on were armed, that two RPGs and one AKM or AK-47 rifle could be seen in the helicopter video, and that these weapons were picked up by the follow-up U.S. ground troops. [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! [8] The video, which WikiLeaks titled Collateral Murder, showed the crew firing on a group of men and killing several of them, then laughing at some of the casualties, all of whom were civilians, including two Reuters journalists. After attending to the girl's wounds and handing her to a medic, McCord was ordered to take position on the roof but he returned to the van to find the boy moving his hand. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. In the first example maybe it's collateral exaggeration or incompetence when they strafe the initial gathering, this is recklessness bordering on murder, but you couldn't say for sure that was murder. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. You can see in this particular image he is lying on the ground and the people in the van have been separated, but they still deliberately target him. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". Apache helicopters were called in by a soldier in the Humvee (Hotel 26) under attack from the same position used by Namir Noor-Eldeen to photograph the vehicle. [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. Many soldiers felt threatened just by the fact that you were looking at them, so they fired their weapons on anybody that was looking at them because they (I . Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? McCord was captured in a video shot from one helicopter as he ran frantically to a military vehicle with Sajad in his arms seeking medical care. [19], The events between the attack on the van and the attack on the building (approximately 30 minutes) were not captured on the leaked video footage. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. The ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. We acknowledge our part in the deaths and injuries of your loved ones as we tell Americans what we were trained to do and what we carried out in the name of "god and country". [47] Greenwald called the second airstrike a "plainly unjustified killing of a group of unarmed men carrying away an unarmed, seriously wounded man to safety". So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. 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