[61], Washington Post reporter David Finkel, who at the time was embedded with Bravo Company 216 Infantry, later covered the incidents of the day in his book, The Good Soldiers. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. 2023 Cond Nast. Ethan Cord (Horsley) is still a man with a conscience, and kids, but he is also less reluctant to rely on his ability with a gun. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. 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. It's very disturbing. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. [45][114], "Cameramen and armed insurgents" (all captions from the Army report), "Cameraman peering around corner of wall", "Pictures taken by ground forces after reaching the site". "[60], Early in 2010, the Internet whistleblower site WikiLeaks made a public request for assistance in decrypting a video it described as "US bomb strikes on civilians", specifically requesting access to supercomputer time. [86], Ethan McCord, the soldier seen in the video carrying the injured boy, recalled in an interview on The Marc Steiner Show that on arrival at the scene, "The first thing I did was run up to the van". [65][66] 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. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. The story was then overtaken by a more updated one out of Washington that incorporated reporting from the original piece. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. 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. She was crying. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. She had a stomach wound? The crew then reposition the helicopter and fire two more missiles into the upper floors of the building[44], WikiLeaks said in the preface to one of their videos of the incident that "some of the men appear to have been armed [although] the behavior of nearly everyone was relaxed" in the introductory text of the shorter video. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. [43] He walks into a building which has been identified as the source of fire at U.S. ground troops. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". 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. [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. "[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. A draft version of the video WikiLeaks produced made reference to the AK-47s and RPGs, but WikiLeaks said that ultimately they became unsure about the RPG, believing the long object could have been a camera tripod, so they decided not to point it out in the released version. [15] An anonymous U.S. military official confirmed the authenticity of the footage,[16] which provoked global discussion on the legality and morality of the attacks. 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. That's the hard part to swallow. 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. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. McCord: I would be smoked. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. We've been there for so long now and it seems like nothing is being accomplished whatsoever, except for we're making more people hate us. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. Please accept our apology, our sorrow, our care, and our dedication to change from the inside out. She said that she was "aghast" at Finkel's portrayal of the incident. The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. [59], An internal legal review by staff at Forward Operating Base Loyalty in Iraq during July 2007 stated that the helicopters had attacked a number of armed insurgents within the rules of engagement, and that in an apparent case of civilian casualties two reporters working for Reuters had also been killed. I can accept their apology, because they saved my children, and if it were not for them, maybe my two little children would be dead. When we were on that roof, we were still taking fire. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. [30], Assange stated that some of the press had not reported on the third airstrike, in which three Hellfire missiles were fired onto an apartment complex, which only appears in the longer unedited version of the two videos.[31]. But the video and accompanying audio make clear that the soldiers in the helicopter said they spotted 'weapons' among those in the grouplater identified by an internal army investigator as an AK-47 and an RPG. McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. 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. Ukraine Suffered More Wiper Malware in 2022 Than Anywhere, Ever. China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. Home: Laytonsville, Maryland Served in: Baghdad (Rustamiyah) 07-08 Fort Riley, KS 06-07, 08-09, BACKGROUND ON ETHAN MCCORD: Branch of service: United States Army (USA) Unit: 1st ID Rank: Spc. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. When this video first came out, there was a lot of outrage by the soldiers, just because it depicted us as being callous, cruel, heartless people, and we're not that way. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was 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]. [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. Eamonn McCann Mon Aug 19 2013 - 20:49 Bradley Manning was scheduled to speak yesterday at the sentencing phase of his trial for having leaked 750,000 pages of classified documents and videos to. 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". Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. [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". [59] Reuters requested a copy of the full video under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the same day. A passing van then stopped and attempted to load a wounded man. And that in turn is what helped me and Josh write the letter, hoping that it would find its way to them to let them know that we're sorry. 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. However, according to the co-pilot for Crazyhorse 1/8 they failed to positively identify the occupants as combatants and returned to the previous engagement area. 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. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our livesfrom culture to business, science to design. Assange responded:[69][70]. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events". I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. Ethan McCord was a member of the military unit in "Collateral Murder" - the Wikileaks video showing 12 Iraqis being killed from a US helicopter.He rescued the two children severely wounded in the attack and is now speaking out to corroborate the Collateral Murder video. ", The letter, which they hope to get to the family who lost their father and whose children were injured in the attack, states that they "are acknowledging our responsibility for bringing the battle to your neighborhood, and to your family. "[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. The boy's alive!" [89], When interviewed by Wired, McCord stated that he supported WikiLeaks in releasing the video, with some qualifications: "When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. The footage was portrayed as classified,[7] but the individual who leaked it, U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning,[a] testified in 2013 that the video was not classified. From our own experiences, and the experiences of other veterans we have talked to, we know that the acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war: this is the nature of how U.S.-led wars are carried out in this region. He's no longer in the Army. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. [108][109], In a June 7, 2010, article in The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian addressed several issues involved in determining the legality of the attacks, including "proportionality", "positive identification" ("reasonable certainty" that the target has hostile intent), and "the treatment of casualties during an ongoing military operation". 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. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. There is no bringing back all that was lost. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. There's no before and there's no after". 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. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. Fox News later stated that "although it could be argued AK-47 rifles are common household items, RPGs are not". The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. 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. The soldier in the video said that your husband shouldn't have brought your children to battle, but we are acknowledging our responsibility for bringing the battle to your neighborhood, and to your family. BACKGROUND ON JOSH STIEBER: Branch of service: United States Army (USA) Unit: 1st ID Rank: Spc. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. So if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyse and assess. [91], In May 2010, a 22-year-old American Army intelligence analyst, Chelsea Manning, was arrested after telling hacker Adrian Lamo she had leaked the airstrike video, along with a video of another airstrike and around 260,000 diplomatic cables, to WikiLeaks. It shouldn't have surprised you what you saw. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. 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". James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the . Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. [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". [17] Julian Assange said "permission to engage was given before the word 'RPG' was ever used". They asked for an explanation of the confiscation of the journalists' two cameras, access to the on-board footage and voice communications from the helicopters involved, and access to the reports of the units involved in the incident, particularly logs of weapons taken from the scene. 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 Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. [117], In June 2011 the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) awarded the "Whistleblower Award" to the person who made the video Collateral Murder public via WikiLeaks. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. . They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. Ethan Mccord and Josh Stieber deployed to Baghdad with Bravo Company 2-16 in 2007. classified video created its own firestorm. "[88] In this interview, McCord reports that repercussions for seeking mental health help could include being labeled as a "malingerer", a crime under U.S. military law. 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. This is urban combat and we're taking the war to children and women and innocents. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? We did unto you what we would not want done to us. Ethan McCord: Right. There had been running gun battles. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. There's houses behind where the van was. soldiers. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. All rights reserved. Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? [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. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. Both children were said to have been evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital via Forward Operating Base Loyalty, then transferred to an Iraqi medical facility the next day. Ahlam Abdelhussein Tuman, the widow of the man who had been driving the van, and the mother of the children McCord had carried out, responded to the open letter in 2010:[75]. You don't just take somebody's life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. [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." I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. Wired.com: Did you try to get information about the two children after the shooting? But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. Josh Stieber was in the same company but was not there that day, though he contributed to the your pain, and the pain of your community on many other occasions. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. 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. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. Ethan McCord had just returned from dropping his children at school earlier this month, when he turned on the TV news to see grainy black-and-white video footage of a soldier running from a bombed-out van with a child in his arms. [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. McCord: There were approximately two to three other people who were moving who were still somewhat alive, and the medics were attending to them. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". "[4] The New York Times wrote that "Critics contend that the shorter video was misleading because it did not make clear that the attacks took place amid clashes in the neighborhood and that one of the men was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade. [81] 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. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. In addition to five[98][99] or six[100][101][102] espionage counts, she was also found guilty of five theft specifications, two computer fraud specifications and multiple military infractions. Stuff like that happens on a daily basis in Iraq. There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. On July 12, 2007, a series of air-to-ground attacks were conducted by a team of two U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopters in Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad, during the Iraqi insurgency which followed the invasion of Iraq. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three [], All the Settings You Should Change on Your New Samsung Phone, Its Time to Fall in Love With Nuclear FusionAgain, Give Your Back a Break With Our Favorite Office Chairs, Fat, Sugar, Salt Youve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong, Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. It was more of a child who was frightened out of her mind. Among the group were two Iraqi war correspondents working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. [87], McCord discussed his experience in the battle in an interview with the World Socialist Web Site on April 28, 2010, stating, "What happened then was not an isolated incident. 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. We heard the gunships open up. I went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. 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