These people were operating in split second situations.". 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. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. 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. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. 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. Ethan Cord (Horsley) is still a man with a conscience, and kids, but he is also less reluctant to rely on his ability with a gun. "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. [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". 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. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. Smoked is basically like you're doing pushups a lot, you're doing sit-ups crunches and flutter kicks. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. [85] McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. I've had nightmares. The Washington Post has denied having any copy of the unedited video prior to WikiLeaks release of their edited version, and Finkel (who was on book leave from The Washington Post at the time) said that he has never made any statement about his sources for the story, except that it was "sourced from unclassified information and my presence in the area that day". 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. It's obviously a hard thing to see. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. There's houses behind where the van was. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. [92][93] The Internet chats between Manning and Lamo were revealed to the public by Wired. 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] Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. I'm going to help that person. 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. 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. 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McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. They were destroyed. [60] The Pentagon eventually blocked the FOIA request[25] despite several follow-up requests by Reuters. 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. 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. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. [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". He condemned and reported the massacre as soon as it happened. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. . But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. 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. 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. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. 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. 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. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. When we were on that roof, we were still taking fire. Wired.com: Did you try to get information about the two children after the shooting? Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". Those guys could have just been protecting their area". China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. A passing van then stopped and attempted to load a wounded man. But youyou talked about the fog of war. [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. [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. Oh well", and a minute later continued, "Well, it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle". 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. [58], On July 25, 2007, during an off-the-record briefing in Baghdad by the U.S. military, two Reuters editors were shown "less than three minutes of video from the Apaches gun camera, up to the exact moment it opened fire the first time." 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. "[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. 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. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three [], All the Settings You Should Change on Your New Samsung Phone, Its Time to Fall in Love With Nuclear FusionAgain, Give Your Back a Break With Our Favorite Office Chairs, Fat, Sugar, Salt Youve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong, Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws. "[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". [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. It's painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. 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. [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". Ethan McCord was a U.S. soldier on patrol in Baghdad in July 2007 when he came upon a scene he says he'd never encountered. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. [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". They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. You can see in this particular image he is lying on the ground and the people in the van have been separated, but they still deliberately target him. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. McCord: I have never seen anybody being shot by a 30-millimeter round before. "The first thing I thought of was my children at home". I wasn't thinking about it as much. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. This is his account of what he saw. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. 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. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. [68], Stephen Colbert, in an interview with Assange in April 2010, asked him about the title: "You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called 'Collateral Murder'. He runs the girl to the Bradley. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" 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 . 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. 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[25] Both videos depict the attack on the van, van driver, and two other men, and the aftermath when the two seriously injured children were evacuated by U.S. ground forces who arrived on the scene. [89], When interviewed by Wired, McCord stated that he supported WikiLeaks in releasing the video, with some qualifications: "When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. [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. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. McCord: Yeah. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. That stays with you. There's no easy way to kill somebody. A third, an infantry solider named Ethan McCord, was one of the men who had scooped up the bodies of the wounded children in the apache helicopter attack, what is now known as the "Collateral. 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]. [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. The crew for Crazyhorse 1/9 could not engage due to target obfuscation from buildings and dust. That classified video created its own firestorm. McCord: There were approximately two to three other people who were moving who were still somewhat alive, and the medics were attending to them. I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. You Cant Trust App Developers Privacy Claims on Google Play, Mozilla researchers found that apps often provide inaccurate data use disclosures, giving people a false sense of security., Batteries Are Ukraines Secret Weapon Against Russia. 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. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. She was crying. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. [21], The Air Weapons Team (AWT) of two Apache AH-64s from the 1st Cavalry Division had been requested by the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment (216), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, before July 12 to support Operation Ilaaj. 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. 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. Iraq war veteran Ethan McCord was one of three US soldiers who were on the ground during the Apache helicopter assault on twelve civilians in Baghdad in 2007 that was captured in a video. There's no before and there's no after". Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. We heard the gunships open up. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.". WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Assange responded:[69][70]. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. It happened because my content was bad. Ethan McCord, a soldier who arrived on the scene after the attack, stated in an interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: From being in the perspective of the Apache helicopter crew, I can see where a group of men gathering, when there's a firefight just a few blocks away, which I was involved in, and theyre carrying weapons, one of which is an RPG. Stuff like that happens on a daily basis in Iraq. 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. [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. "[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. 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 quote begins at 12:22 in video, and the shot that killed Saaed is at 12:25)", "Stephen Colbert Interviews WikiLeaks Founder", "US veterans write apology letter to Iraqis following WikiLeaks video", "We killed your father I'm heartbroken", "Widow of Iraqi killed by US troops in video 'accepts apology' after letter", "Airstrike Video Brings Attention to WikiLeaks Site", "Elliptical vs. treadmill: Which will give you the better workout? [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. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. 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. Their overall mission that day was to protect us, to provide support for us, so I can see where the initial attack on the group of men was warranted. 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. 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. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. 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