The film received an Oscar nomination in January. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. 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). [59] Reuters requested a copy of the full video under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the same day. 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. 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 . Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. 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. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. The majority of us aren't. 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. [110], Mark Taylor, an international law expert and a director at the Fafo Institute for International Studies in Norway, told Al Jazeera "there's a case to be made that a war crime may have been committed." So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. There were some people taking pot shots, sniper shots, at us on the rooftop. There had been running gun battles. 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. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. 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. 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. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. 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. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. McCord: I would be smoked. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. Oh well", and a minute later continued, "Well, it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle". [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. McCord was captured in a video shot from one helicopter as he ran frantically to a military vehicle with Sajad in his arms seeking medical care. [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". [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. She had a stomach wound? In refusing to recognize this, the US military fails both its own soldiers and their victims. 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There's no before and there's no after". 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. [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. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. 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. [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. 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. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. McCord was captured in a video shot from one helicopter as he ran frantically to a military vehicle with Sajad in his arms seeking medical care. Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. I think that the people could have been deterred from doing what they were doing in the van by simply firing a few warning shots versus completely obliterating the van and its occupants.[52][53]. [48], In The Independent on April 8, 2010, human rights activist Joan Smith wrote that the engagements were like a game to the helicopter crew. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. 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. 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. It was more of a child who was frightened out of her mind. As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. That stays with you. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. [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". 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. 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. More than a dozen people were killed in three attacks captured in the video, including two Reuters journalists, one carrying a camera that was apparently mistaken for a weapon. An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. 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. Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. There's no front lines here. [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. Give us a picture of what happened that day. 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. There's no easy way to kill somebody. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. 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[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. 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. [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. It's very disturbing. The ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. But youyou talked about the fog of war. I always questioned it in the back of my mind. 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. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. [117], In June 2011 the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) awarded the "Whistleblower Award" to the person who made the video Collateral Murder public via WikiLeaks. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. 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 helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . . 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". Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. Please accept our apology, our sorrow, our care, and our dedication to change from the inside out. 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. I was up on a rooftop at that time. 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. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. 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". He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. soldiers. The boy's alive!" 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. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". [30], Assange stated that some of the press had not reported on the third airstrike, in which three Hellfire missiles were fired onto an apartment complex, which only appears in the longer unedited version of the two videos.[31]. James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the . It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. Stuff like that happens on a daily basis in Iraq. "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. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? "[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". 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." Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. There is no bringing back all that was lost. 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. [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. She said that she was "aghast" at Finkel's portrayal of the incident. [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". "[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. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. Smoked is basically like you're doing pushups a lot, you're doing sit-ups crunches and flutter kicks. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. 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. The story was then overtaken by a more updated one out of Washington that incorporated reporting from the original piece. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded. The crew for Crazyhorse 1/8 then located multiple individuals with weapons about 400 meters east of coalition forces and was given clearance to engage the targets. [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. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? Daniel Ellsberg, a former United States military analyst who was known for having leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media, said of the airstrike: It would be interesting to have someone speculate or tell us exactly what context would lead to justifying the killing that we see on the screen. BACKGROUND ON JOSH STIEBER: Branch of service: United States Army (USA) Unit: 1st ID Rank: Spc. 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. 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. I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. 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. There's houses behind where the van was. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. That classified video created its own firestorm. 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 wasnt like a cry of pain really. 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. [55], Assange stated that the attack on the van was the most damning part of the video: "I'm very sceptical that was done under the rules of engagement; and, if it was legal, the rules of engagement must be changed". "Our forces were engaged in combat all that day with individuals that fit the description of the men in that video. It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. [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". 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. Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. Advertisement. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. It's painful to see, especially when you learn after the fact what was going on. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. These people were operating in split second situations.". Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. 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. (quote begins at 5:15)", "Soldiers in 'Collateral Murder' video apologise", "Meet The New Public Face Of WikiLeaks: Kristinn Hrafnsson Forbes", "2 Iraqi Journalists Killed as U.S. After the video was released, one of the soldiers involved in the incident, Ethan McCord, stated the following: "If you feel threatened in any way, you're able to engage that person. 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. They did have weapons there. However, I do know some soldiers went in to clear that building afterwards and there were some people with weapons in there, but there was also a family of four that was killed. Suddenly that belief changed are we doing there requested a copy of first... 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