One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" We did unto you what we would not want done to us.". WikiLeaks stated 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. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. This is urban combat and we're taking the war to children and women and innocents. As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. Wired.com: What did you understand that to mean? The crew for Crazyhorse 1/9 could not engage due to target obfuscation from buildings and dust. You can make out in the video [someone] carrying an AK-47, swinging it down by his legs. And as far as the way that the soldiers are speaking in the video, which is pretty callous and joking about what's happened that's a coping mechanism. 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 . [18] The report recommends encouraging journalists in Iraq to wear special vests to identify themselves, and to keep the U.S. military updated about their whereabouts. I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of gunsight footage by the Internet whistleblower website WikiLeaks. That classified video created its own firestorm when the whistleblower site Wikileaks posted it April 5 on a website titled "Collateral Murder" and asserted that the attack was unprovoked. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. But youyou talked about the fog of war. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. 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. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. They're trained as soldiers to go into a building and clear a building. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? 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. [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. When we were on that roof, we were still taking fire. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." 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 missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. [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. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. 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 . 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. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. McCord: Yeah. She was crying. 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. Bill Keller of The New York Times wrote, "But in its zeal to make the video a work of antiwar propaganda, WikiLeaks also released a version that didn't call attention to an Iraqi who was toting a rocket-propelled grenade and packaged the manipulated version under the tendentious rubric Collateral Murder. Towards the end of the show, the star actor became an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and after he left "Adam-12." Ethan McCord: Right. 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. 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. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? [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". There's houses behind where the van was. "Reading his account," she explained, "one would believe the engagement was somehow justified as 'payback' for an earlier attack that led to the death of a soldier. Our secretary of defense may say the U.S. won't lose its reputation over this, but we stand and say that our reputation's importance pales in comparison to our common humanity. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. It's very disturbing. Describing doubts over his initial enthusiasm in Iraq, McCord said that "I didnt understand why people were throwing rocks at us, why I was being shot at and why we're being blown up, when I have it in my head that I was here to help these people. Global Policy Forum distributes this material without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. [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]. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. Series of air-to-ground attacks conducted in New Baghdad during the Iraqi insurgency, An AH-64 Apache helicopter, the type used in the attack, Arrest, convictions and sentencing of Manning, Attack on personnel and a van per U.S. Army report account, Attack on building per U.S. Army report account, Julian Assange's comments regarding U.S. Army report, List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War 2007, "In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency', "Video Shows U.S. [92], On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specified charges. 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. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. 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 . I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. 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. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". Ethan McCord describes the moment he realised Sajad Toman was alive In July 2007, 19 people were killed when an Apache helicopter opened fire on a group of Iraqis whom the pilots had identified. [17] Julian Assange said "permission to engage was given before the word 'RPG' was ever used". Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. [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". [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. Ad Choices, U.S. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. 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When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . She said that she was "aghast" at Finkel's portrayal of the incident. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? . 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. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. 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. She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. 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. [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". 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. He runs the girl to the Bradley. [85] [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. [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. 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. 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. 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. [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". [18] Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. 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. Advertisement. Among the group were two Iraqi war correspondents working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. 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. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. 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. A unit from Bravo Company 216 was within 100 meters of the individuals that were fired upon with 30mm AH-64 Apache cannons. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. 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. [96] Her trial on the remaining charges began on June 3, 2013. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". 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." We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. 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. So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. There is no bringing back all that was lost. When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. 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. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". classified video created its own firestorm. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. 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. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. 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. Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded. [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". [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. The ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". 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. An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. The flood of emotions came back. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. It's obviously a hard thing to see. 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. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". [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. [22], In the video on the morning of July 12, 2007, the crews of two United States Army AH-64 Apache helicopters observe a gathering of men near a section of Baghdad in the path of advancing U.S. ground troops, some armed with AKMs and RPGs. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Josh . Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. In 2009, Stieber left the military as a conscientious objector and became a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". 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. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. [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. [62] At a February 2013 pretrial hearing, Manning stated that Finkel "was quoting, I feel in verbatim, the audio communications of the aerial weapons team crew". 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. Ethan McCord who says he scooped up the children and at least one of his comrades say the incident revealed the bankrupt brutality of the war. 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The Wikileaks videos also do not reveal the hundreds upon hundreds of cases in which American forces refrain from attacking targets precisely because civilians are in harm's way.[80]. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. 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. I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. [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. In the first example maybe it's collateral exaggeration or incompetence when they strafe the initial gathering, this is recklessness bordering on murder, but you couldn't say for sure that was murder. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. 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. 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. Two children were found in the van, a four-year-old girl with gunshot wounds and embedded windscreen glass wounds and an eight-year-old boy with multiple wounds, including brain damage arising from shrapnel damage to his right temporal lobe. 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. 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. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. 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. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. 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. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. 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