Those guys could have just been protecting their area". That's the hard part to swallow. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. 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. Oh well", and a minute later continued, "Well, it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle". In refusing to recognize this, the US military fails both its own soldiers and their victims. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. McCord is the father of three children. 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. McCord: I have never seen anybody being shot by a 30-millimeter round before. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. [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. classified video created its own firestorm. [104][105][106][107] Pursuant to a commutation by President Obama, Chelsea Manning was released on May 17, 2017. Smoked is basically like you're doing pushups a lot, you're doing sit-ups crunches and flutter kicks. The first real serious doubt, where I could no longer justify to myself being in Iraq or serving in the Army, was on that day in July 2007. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. 2023 Cond Nast. The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. 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. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. [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]. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. 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. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. Ethan McCord, who was one of the first soldiers on the scene in the 2007 attack, told Wired.com that he saw several weapons at the scene, including a rocket propelled grenade launcher. The majority of us aren't. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. 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]. [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). There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. These people were operating in split second situations.". Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. It happened because my content was bad. McCord: I would be smoked. 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." [49], On Democracy Now!, Josh Stieber, who was at the time assigned to Bravo Company 216, said that although it's natural to "judge or criticize the soldiers", in fact "this is how [they] were trained to act". They're trained as soldiers to go into a building and clear a building. How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. 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We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. [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 don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. Advertisement. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. 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. She had a stomach wound? That classified video created its own firestorm. [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." Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. Iraq war veteran Ethan McCord was one of three US soldiers who were on the ground during the Apache helicopter assault on twelve civilians in Baghdad in 2007 that was captured in a video. 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. [92], On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specified charges. [20] According to a military review, soldiers in that company "had been under sporadic small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire since" the operationdescribed as "clearing their sector and looking for weapons caches"began. Ethan McCord: Right. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. 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. 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. As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. [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. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. "[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. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. 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. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. Inside 'Adam-12' Star, Kent McCord caught the attention of TV lovers when he popularized the "Jim Reed" character in 1968's "Adam-12." McCord maintained the role for seven seasons till the show ended in 1975. The boy's alive!" So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. In a third strike, Apache pilots watched people, including some armed men, run into a building and engaged that building with several AGM-114 Hellfire missiles. According to Tom Raju, a reporter at CNN, "the soldiers of Bravo Company, 216 Infantry had been under fire all morning from rocket-propelled grenades and small arms on the first day of Operation Ilaaj in Baghdad". 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 helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." Assange responded: Yes, absolutely Our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! I'm guilty of it, too, myself. [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. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. 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 . 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 . [58] Reuters subsequently asked the U.S. military to probe the deaths. 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. [81] (The quote begins at 12:22 in video, and the shot that killed Saaed is at 12:25)", "Stephen Colbert Interviews WikiLeaks Founder", "US veterans write apology letter to Iraqis following WikiLeaks video", "We killed your father I'm heartbroken", "Widow of Iraqi killed by US troops in video 'accepts apology' after letter", "Airstrike Video Brings Attention to WikiLeaks Site", "Elliptical vs. treadmill: Which will give you the better workout? 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]. 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 . The Web site does not slow down the video to show that at least one man in that group was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, a clearly visible weapon that runs nearly two-thirds the length of his body. [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. 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. [50] In a later interview on the World Socialist Web Site, Stieber said that the attack "exposes so clearly the fallacy of using war as a tool of foreign policy or as a way to supposedly spread 'freedom and democracy' around the world".[51]. In 2009, Stieber left the military as a conscientious objector and became a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. [68], Stephen Colbert, in an interview with Assange in April 2010, asked him about the title: "You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called 'Collateral Murder'. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. Ethan McCord, a soldier who arrived on the scene after the attack, stated in an interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: From being in the perspective of the Apache helicopter crew, I can see where a group of men gathering, when there's a firefight just a few blocks away, which I was involved in, and theyre carrying weapons, one of which is an RPG. [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. Ethan McCord: From Atrocities in Iraq to Resisting U.S. Wars Tweet This interview was done by and first appeared in Revolution newspaper Revolution: In the attack shown in the WikiLeaks video, you were part of the unit that was at the scene, on the ground. He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. [21], The Air Weapons Team (AWT) of two Apache AH-64s from the 1st Cavalry Division had been requested by the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment (216), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, before July 12 to support Operation Ilaaj. 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". [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. [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Ethan McCord was a U.S. soldier on patrol in Baghdad in July 2007 when he came upon a scene he says he'd never encountered. The crew for Crazyhorse 1/9 could not engage due to target obfuscation from buildings and dust. It's very disturbing. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. [32], On the day of the attack the U.S. military reported that the two journalists were killed along with nine insurgents, and that the helicopter engagement was related to a U.S. troop raid force that had been attacked by small-arms fire and RPGs. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. He was shot and killed. Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". [2][22] Pentagon officials told the Reuters news agency that U.S. military lawyers were reviewing the video and could reopen an investigation into the incident,[67] but a spokesperson later said that there were no plans to reopen the investigation. I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. 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. [17], In an interview with Fox News Assange said that "it's likely some of the individuals seen in the video were carrying weapons" and "based upon visual evidence I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG, but I'm not sure that means anything. Wired.com: Civilians are supposed to know that they're not supposed to pick up a wounded person crawling in the road? Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. Smith describes this reaction as inhuman. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. 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. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". 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 in New York next week. 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. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". 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. [43], Assange responded to the investigation report released by the Army in an interview with Democracy Now!, stating that "the tone and language is all about trying to find an excuse for the activity. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. [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". Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. 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. 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". The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. 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. [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". I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. The co-pilot/gunner for Crazyhorse 1/9 spotted three individuals near this building get into a red SUV and drive away to the west. It's obviously a hard thing to see. You don't just take somebody's life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. Daniel Ellsberg, a former United States military analyst who was known for having leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media, said of the airstrike: It would be interesting to have someone speculate or tell us exactly what context would lead to justifying the killing that we see on the screen. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. In an Al Jazeera English interview on April 19, 2010, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange explained why WikiLeaks titled the video Collateral Murder: And you can see that they also deliberately target Saaed, a wounded man there on the ground, despite their earlier belief that they didn't have the rules of engagementthat the rules of engagement did not permit them to kill Saeed when he was wounded. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. He looked at me, then his eyes rolled back into this head. McCord: Yeah. As the killing goes on, you obviously would see the killing of men who are lying on the ground in an operation where ground troops are approaching and perfectly capable of taking those people captive, but meanwhile you're murdering before the troops arrive. [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. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? 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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. [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". 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. Their 43-year-old father, Saleh, had been driving them to a class when he spotted one of the wounded men moving in the street and drove over to help him, only to become a victim of the Apache guns. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. The promise we make to our sources is that not only will we defend them through every means that we have available technologically, legally and politically but we will try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material that they give to us. 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. [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". [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. [32] The Apache crew alerted the ground troops of the van and requested permission to engage the vehicle before the ground troops arrived. He said that the debate should be re-framed, that it is more appropriate to ask "questions of the larger system" that teaches "doing these things is in the best interests of my own country". McCord, who served seven years in the military before leaving in the summer of 2009 due to injuries, recently posted an apologetic letter online with fellow soldier Josh Steiber supporting the release of the video and asking the family's forgiveness. 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. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. 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. I'm going to help that person. [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. 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. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". McCord: There were approximately two to three other people who were moving who were still somewhat alive, and the medics were attending to them. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. So if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyse and assess. 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