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". 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]. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. "[88] In this interview, McCord reports that repercussions for seeking mental health help could include being labeled as a "malingerer", a crime under U.S. military law. 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. 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. 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 . 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. She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". [32] Assange also said "it's ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context in this video". [43] He walks into a building which has been identified as the source of fire at U.S. ground troops. [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. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? 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. She was crying. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. 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. 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. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. [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". Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. 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. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. You joke about the situations and what's happened to push away your true feelings of the matter. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. They request permission to fire a missile at the building, describing it as "abandoned" or "under construction". Ethan McCord, a 33-year-old Army specialist, was engaged in a firefight with insurgents in an Iraqi suburb in July 2007, when his platoon, part of Bravo Company, 2-16 Infantry, got orders to. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded. [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. [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. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. There is no bringing back all that was lost. 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. Both children were said to have been evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital via Forward Operating Base Loyalty, then transferred to an Iraqi medical facility the next day. 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. [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. 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. 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. 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. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? 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. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. It's obviously a hard thing to see. "[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. In refusing to recognize this, the US military fails both its own soldiers and their victims. 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 flood of emotions came back. 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. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. 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. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. McCord is the father of three children. The story was then overtaken by a more updated one out of Washington that incorporated reporting from the original piece. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. 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. 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: Right. [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]. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. 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. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. There's no front lines here. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. You don't just take somebody's life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. Two men assisting in the rescue effort were from a group of five standing at an intersection seen in the upper right corner of the video when the Reuters employees arrive in the courtyard reported to Apaches as being a second position combatants were using to attack the Humvee. 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. There's no easy way to kill somebody. 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 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. So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. [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". The majority of us aren't. McCord: I would be smoked. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. All rights reserved. [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. ", 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. I had blood all down the front of me from the children. [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". After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. In the first strike, the crews of two Apaches directed 30mm cannon fire at a group of ten Iraqi men, including some armed,[17][18][19] standing less than 100 meters away from U.S. ground troops at a location where insurgents earlier that day had attacked an American Humvee with small arms fire. 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 just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. I've had nightmares. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. We have asked our fellow veterans and service-members, as well as civilians both in the United States and abroad, to sign in support of this letter, and to offer their names as a testimony to our common humanity, to distance ourselves from the destructive policies of our nation's leaders, and to extend our hands to you. [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. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? 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. 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. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. He's no longer in the Army. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. I've spoken with other soldiers who were there. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. McCord: There were approximately two to three other people who were moving who were still somewhat alive, and the medics were attending to them. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. "[112], On April 5, 2010, the same day as the release of the video footage by WikiLeaks, the United States Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, released a collection of documents including two investigative reports. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. 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. 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. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. We heard the gunships open up. [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". He opened his eyes when I was carrying him. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. Advertisement. [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. "[46] Assange later said "Based upon visual evidence, I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG, but I'm not sure that means anything". A Pentagon spokesman said the video did not contradict the official finding that the helicopters' crew acted within the rules of engagement and said that the inquiry backed the assessment that the group of men were carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). I was up on a rooftop at that time. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? 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. "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. They're trained as soldiers to go into a building and clear a building. 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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". [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. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. [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. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? soldiers. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. 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. Josh . [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. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? In 2009, Stieber left the military as a conscientious objector and became a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" classified video created its own firestorm. How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. [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". "Our forces were engaged in combat all that day with individuals that fit the description of the men in that video. 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. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. 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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. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. 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. 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. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. They also found 10-year-old Sajad Mutashar and his five-year-old sister Doaha covered in blood in a van. [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 split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. [17] Julian Assange said "permission to engage was given before the word 'RPG' was ever used". 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. I was also told that there would be repercussions if I was to go to mental health. 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. 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. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. [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. We acknowledge our part in the deaths and injuries of your loved ones as we tell Americans what we were trained to do and what we carried out in the name of "god and country". [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. "[60], Early in 2010, the Internet whistleblower site WikiLeaks made a public request for assistance in decrypting a video it described as "US bomb strikes on civilians", specifically requesting access to supercomputer time. It's painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. [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. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. 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