Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". 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. 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. [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. 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. It happened because my content was bad. 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. (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. The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. 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. Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? [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". 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. Assange responded:[69][70]. [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. She had a stomach wound? Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. [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. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". He's no longer in the Army. So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. 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. [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. 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. 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Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. [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. [103], On August 21, 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment, reduction in rank from private first class to private, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and a dishonorable discharge. "[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. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. Ahlam Abdelhussein Tuman, the widow of the man who had been driving the van, and the mother of the children McCord had carried out, responded to the open letter in 2010:[75]. 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. McCord: I wasn't around that building when it happened. There were plenty of times in the past where other insurgents would come by and pick up the bodies, and then we'd have no evidence or anything to what happened, so in looking at it from the Apache's point of view, they were thinking that [someone was] picking up the weapons and bodies; when, in hindsight, clearly they were picking up the wounded man. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. BACKGROUND ON JOSH STIEBER: Branch of service: United States Army (USA) Unit: 1st ID Rank: Spc. 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 and Josh are available for interviews. Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. [18][25][31] The Apache crew requested permission to engage, stating it "looks like [the men] possibly, picking up bodies and weapons" from the scene,[33] and repeated their request to shoot,[7][34][35][36][37] before they received permission to begin firing on the van and its occupants. There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. [59] Reuters requested a copy of the full video under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the same day. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. Ad Choices, U.S. [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. [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. I do know that there was a teenage girl [in there], just because I saw the pictures when I was there, that one of the soldiers took. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. [18] A long shadow cast on the ground by a telephoto lens on Noor-Eldeen's camera is misidentified by the pilot as an additional RPG aimed at him and a U.S. Army Humvee directly below his aircraft. 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. 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. 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. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. Smoked is basically like you're doing pushups a lot, you're doing sit-ups crunches and flutter kicks. 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. [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". As the killing goes on, you obviously would see the killing of men who are lying on the ground in an operation where ground troops are approaching and perfectly capable of taking those people captive, but meanwhile you're murdering before the troops arrive. [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. It also states that "The cameras could easily be mistaken for slung AK-47 or AKM rifles, especially since neither cameraman is wearing anything that identifies him as media or press". We're sorry for the system that we were involved in that took their father's life and injured them. [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. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. It's very disturbing. 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. 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. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. [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". 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. Using short sentences, similar punctuation, or using the same words frequently as well as using Grammarly can boost your content as AI written. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. These people were operating in split second situations.". [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". [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. [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. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. This is his account of what he saw. 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. 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. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. 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. [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. [17] Politifact stated: "When Assange points out in the context of justifying the title 'Collateral Murder' that the word 'RPG' was not used until after permission to engage was given, he leaves the impression that the soldiers were given the okay to open fire on a group of unarmed men, or men believed to be unarmed. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. 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. You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events". McCord: There were approximately two to three other people who were moving who were still somewhat alive, and the medics were attending to them. 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. However, the long version of the video shows that this van had already been targeted by one Apache (Crazyhorse 1/8), prior to the second strike, as it traveled south toward the Reuters employees who were simultaneously targeted by the other Apache (Crazyhorse 1/9) as they walked with the group of men north on the same road toward the van. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. Their age, their weapons, and the fact that they were within the distance of the forces that had been engaged made it apparent these guys were potentially a threat. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. That's the hard part to swallow. 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. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. 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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. 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. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. 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. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. Wired.com: Did you try to get information about the two children after the shooting? He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. McCord, in New York for the festival premiere, told the story of what he experienced while saving two children wounded in the incident. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. 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. "The first thing I thought of was my children at home". I had blood all down the front of me from the children. That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. There had been running gun battles. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. The footage was portrayed as classified,[7] but the individual who leaked it, U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning,[a] testified in 2013 that the video was not classified. 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. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. "[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. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. Wired.com: Civilians are supposed to know that they're not supposed to pick up a wounded person crawling in the road? However, the co-pilot/gunner then observed a child and some other non-combatants in the vicinity of the individuals and decided to hold off on the engagement until the non-combatants were clear. Stuff like that happens on a daily basis in Iraq. classified video created its own firestorm. [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. Smith describes this reaction as inhuman. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. I was up on a rooftop at that time. 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. [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". [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". "[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". Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. 2023 Cond Nast. He runs the girl to the Bradley. [118][119], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}331849N 443043E / 33.3137N 44.512E / 33.3137; 44.512 (Airstrike of 2007-07-12). [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. ", 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. [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". I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. [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'. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. [32] The legal review carried out by the U.S. Army stated that the two children were evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital via Forward Operating Base Loyalty, then transferred to an Iraqi medical facility the next day. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. The boy's alive!" Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". Josh . We took her in there and we're checking to see if there were any other wounds. 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". [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. He said that the debate should be re-framed, that it is more appropriate to ask "questions of the larger system" that teaches "doing these things is in the best interests of my own country". 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. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. 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. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. 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. There is no bringing back all that was lost. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. 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