We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. 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. But youyou talked about the fog of war. 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. 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 the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. [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. [58] Reuters subsequently asked the U.S. military to probe the deaths. [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. [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. Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. It could be that since he and Amelia (Sigrid Thornton) have quit. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. They request permission to fire a missile at the building, describing it as "abandoned" or "under construction". [64] The footage was released during an April 5 press conference at the US National Press Club, and subsequently on a designated website titled Collateral Murder. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. 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. When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. 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. 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". Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. McCord, together with another former member of the company, Josh Stieber, have addressed an open "Letter of Reconciliation" to the Iraqi people taking responsibility for their role in this. 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. [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". 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. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. 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. [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. In refusing to recognize this, the US military fails both its own soldiers and their victims. ", 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. 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 would like the American people and the whole world to understand what happened here in Iraq. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. Those guys could have just been protecting their area". The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? I do know that there was a teenage girl [in there], just because I saw the pictures when I was there, that one of the soldiers took. 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. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. "[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 film received an Oscar nomination in January. There's no front lines here. And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. According to the U.S. Army investigation report released by the United States Central Command, the engagement started at 10:20 Iraqi local time and ended at 10:41. 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. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. A school district is mourning the loss of a 13-year-old student who was found dead along with 3 other family members after a "potential murder-suicide" in Clermont County.It happened around 9:41 a . We did unto you what we would not want done to us. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. What we seek is to learn from our mistakes and do everything we can to tell others of our experiences and how the people of the United States need to realize we have done and are doing to you and the people of your country. "[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. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. [92][93] The Internet chats between Manning and Lamo were revealed to the public by Wired. 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]. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. McCord: I would be smoked. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? There is no bringing back all that was lost. 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. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? However, the long version of the video shows that this van had already been targeted by one Apache (Crazyhorse 1/8), prior to the second strike, as it traveled south toward the Reuters employees who were simultaneously targeted by the other Apache (Crazyhorse 1/9) as they walked with the group of men north on the same road toward the van. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. [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. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. 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. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. [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. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. 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. [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". There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. I was trying to wash it off in my room. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. [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. So if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyse and assess. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. 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". With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. I just kept telling him, "Don't die; don't die." He added, "I think what this video shows is really a case that challenges whether the laws of war are strict enough. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. It's very disturbing. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. 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. 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". That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." I didn't know if he was telling me that just to get me to shut up and to do my job or if he really found something out. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. She had a stomach wound? 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. There's houses behind where the van was. The crew for Crazyhorse 1/9 could not engage due to target obfuscation from buildings and dust. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? 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 . There had been running gun battles. Advertisement. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. [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. [Then I] took my children to school one day and I came home and sat down on the couch and turned on the TV with my coffee, and on the news I'm running across the screen with a child. I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. [18][25][31] The Apache crew requested permission to engage, stating it "looks like [the men] possibly, picking up bodies and weapons" from the scene,[33] and repeated their request to shoot,[7][34][35][36][37] before they received permission to begin firing on the van and its occupants. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. Hanzlik said images gathered during a military investigation of the incident show multiple weapons around the dead bodies in the courtyard, including at least three RPGs. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. Give us a picture of what happened that day. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. "[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. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? 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. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. When we were on that roof, we were still taking fire. [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. [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. Assange responded:[69][70]. [43] The report stated that the helicopter crew did not know how many people were in the building when they destroyed it with missiles, and that "there is evidence that unarmed people have both entered and are nearby". [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. It happened because my content was bad. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. 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. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. These people were operating in split second situations.". Noor-Eldeen fails to photograph the Apache but three pictures of the U.S. Humvee appear on his camera's memory card when it was recovered by U.S. soldiers. That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. It's obviously a hard thing to see. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. [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. [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". Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. Major Brent Cummings claimed they took great pains to prevent the loss of innocent civilian lives. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. Fox News later stated that "although it could be argued AK-47 rifles are common household items, RPGs are not". 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. [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. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. [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 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. "[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. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. [96] Her trial on the remaining charges began on June 3, 2013. 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. She was crying. We heard the gunships open up. 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. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. 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. McCord, in New York for the festival premiere, told the story of what he experienced while saving two children wounded in the incident. "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. 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. [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". To all of those who were injured or lost loved ones during the July 2007 Baghdad shootings depicted in the "Collateral Murder" Wikileaks video: We write to you, your family, and your community with awareness that our words and actions can never restore your losses. 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. 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." [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. 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Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. 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. The ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." [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]. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw, 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. Among the group were two Iraqi war correspondents working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. 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. [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. 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. [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. I'm going to help that person. Ethan Mccord and Josh Stieber deployed to Baghdad with Bravo Company 2-16 in 2007. "[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. 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. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. [Then] we were just told to move to this [other] location. We were just told to move to this [ other ] location informed a. ] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his side did.... 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