We have been speaking to whoever will listen, telling them that what was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. He looked at me, then his eyes rolled back into this head. 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. McCord, in New York for the festival premiere, told the story of what he experienced while saving two children wounded in the incident. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. 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. I had blood all down the front of me from the children. [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? 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. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. [18][25][31] Chmagh was killed[18][25][31] along with three other men, while two children, not known to be in the van to the U.S. forces, were injured. 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. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. [17] Julian Assange said "permission to engage was given before the word 'RPG' was ever used". Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. [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". "[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. [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 was trying to wash it off in my room. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. He's no longer in the Army. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. [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. 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. That stays with you. 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 . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. 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. 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 . It wasnt like a cry of pain really. 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've had nightmares. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. [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. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. 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. [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. It happened because my content was bad. Assange said that Finkel had seen the video and that at least one individual at the offices of The Washington Post had a copy of the video for at least a year, prior to its release by WikiLeaks. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. Gabriel Schoenfeld, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, said of the airstrike: It is precisely the presence of weapons, including RPGs, that goes a long distance toward explaining why cameramen for Reuterspointing television cameras around corners in a battle zonewere readily mistaken by our gunships for insurgents. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. He runs the girl to the Bradley. 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]. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. McCord: Yeah. [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. 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Russian Federation, WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstrike&oldid=1140602029, Articles with dead external links from May 2019, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with dead external links from July 2022, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Press reports of the number killed vary from 12, Representation (including audio) by Banksy, October 9, 2013. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". 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. There is no bringing back all that was lost. Smith describes this reaction as inhuman. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. 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. So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. 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. 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. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. It's painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. [43] He walks into a building which has been identified as the source of fire at U.S. ground troops. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. We heard the gunships open up. [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". ", 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. 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. [115], While the Air Weapons Team was providing support at the first engagement area they were informed by ground troops that they were receiving small arms fire from the south/southwest. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. 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. Solemnly and Sincerely, Josh Stieber, former specialist, U.S. Army Ethan McCord, former specialist, U.S. Army. [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". 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. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. [56] U.S. forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Scott Bleichwehl later stated: "There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force". 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. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. (quote begins at 5:15)", "Soldiers in 'Collateral Murder' video apologise", "Meet The New Public Face Of WikiLeaks: Kristinn Hrafnsson Forbes", "2 Iraqi Journalists Killed as U.S. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. Among the group were two Iraqi war correspondents working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. 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. And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". There's no front lines here. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". [32] Assange also said "it's ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context in this video". I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. Using short sentences, similar punctuation, or using the same words frequently as well as using Grammarly can boost your content as AI written. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. 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. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. 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. Just over a year ago, WikiLeaks released footage from a gunsight camera of an Apache helicopter engaged in an attack that killed two journalists and eight ci. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". He later sought help for psychological trauma, but was ridiculed by his NCO and told that if he were to go to the mental health officer, "there would be repercussions". [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. They also found 10-year-old Sajad Mutashar and his five-year-old sister Doaha covered in blood in a van. 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. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. 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. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". 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. I've spoken with other soldiers who were there. There were plenty of times in the past where other insurgents would come by and pick up the bodies, and then we'd have no evidence or anything to what happened, so in looking at it from the Apache's point of view, they were thinking that [someone was] picking up the weapons and bodies; when, in hindsight, clearly they were picking up the wounded man. [58] Reuters subsequently asked the U.S. military to probe the deaths. [81] You joke about the situations and what's happened to push away your true feelings of the matter. . 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. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. [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. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. When the helicopter pilots discover that they have killed a number of Iraqi civilians and wounded two children, one of them is heard to say: "Well, its their fault for bringing their kids into a battle".[41]. Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. 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". We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. 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. The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? On the same day as the NPR interview, Finkel was asked how he had seen the unedited video and whether WikiLeaks had shown it to him. 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]. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. [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. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . 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It was the video that put WikiLeaks on the map: "Collateral Murder" turned the tide of war in Iraq and landed Private first class Bradley Manning in military detention. 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. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". 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After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. [65][66] The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. 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. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. 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. A unit from Bravo Company 216 was within 100 meters of the individuals that were fired upon with 30mm AH-64 Apache cannons. 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. 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. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. [59][16] In a personal statement during her court-martial, Chelsea Manning stated that the military had access to the video, and was actively examining it, yet it told Reuters in response to the FOIA request that the information might no longer exist. McCord: I have never seen anybody being shot by a 30-millimeter round before. 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That's the hard part to swallow. Killing of Reuters Employees", "Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets", "Iraq war files: Apache Hellfire victims", "US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack", Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers, "Notes from the Courtroom: Alexa O'Brien's Transcript of Pfc. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." 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. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. It's obviously a hard thing to see. She said that she was "aghast" at Finkel's portrayal of the incident. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. It could be that since he and Amelia (Sigrid Thornton) have quit. 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. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. "[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. I was also told that there would be repercussions if I was to go to mental health. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. [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. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. I'm going to help that person. 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. 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. Fox News later stated that "although it could be argued AK-47 rifles are common household items, RPGs are not". 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. 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