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. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. McCord: I wasn't around that building when it happened. It happened because my content was bad. Josh Stieber was not at the scene of the shooting but says similar incidents happened throughout his 14-month tour; "The acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war." We'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. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. 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. Assange responded: Yes, absolutely Our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. 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. 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. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. 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. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. [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". Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. She had a stomach wound? [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. [32] The Apache crew alerted the ground troops of the van and requested permission to engage the vehicle before the ground troops arrived. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. 2023 Cond Nast. Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. It wasnt like a cry of pain really. [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". Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. 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. He later sought help for psychological trauma, but was ridiculed by his NCO and told that if he were to go to the mental health officer, "there would be repercussions". The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" We are doing what we can to speak out against the wars and military policies responsible for what happened to you and your loved ones. They request permission to fire a missile at the building, describing it as "abandoned" or "under construction". [85] I always questioned it in the back of my mind. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. Their 43-year-old father, Saleh, had been driving them to a class when he spotted one of the wounded men moving in the street and drove over to help him, only to become a victim of the Apache guns. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. 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. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. 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. 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. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. 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. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. He was shot and killed. [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. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. 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. I've spoken with other soldiers who were there. [81] US soldiers Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story of coming across the aftermath of the infamous Wikileaks Collateral Murder in which over a dozen innocent civilians, 2 of which were Reuters journalists, were killed. 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]. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. [Then] we were just told to move to this [other] location. 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. [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. 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. "[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". [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. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. 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. They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. Two former soldiers from the Army unit responsible for the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" incident have written an open-letter of "Reconciliation and Responsibility" to those injured in the July 2007 attack, in which U.S. forces wounded two children and killed over a dozen people, including the father of those children and two Reuters employees. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. 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. [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. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! I'm guilty of it, too, myself. I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. 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". Ethan McCord: Right. [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. The flood of emotions came back. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. "The first thing I thought of was my children at home". 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". [Then I] took my children to school one day and I came home and sat down on the couch and turned on the TV with my coffee, and on the news I'm running across the screen with a child. "Our forces were engaged in combat all that day with individuals that fit the description of the men in that video. Forces Clash With Militias", "Reuters seeks U.S. probe into killing of Iraqi staff", "Return to Ward 17: Making peace with lost comrades", "Bradley Manning's statements during his trial", "U.S. gunfire kills two Reuters employees in Baghdad", "WikiLeaks silent on how it broke encryption", "Twitter / WikiLeaks: Have encrypted videos of U", "WikiLeaks posts video of 'US military killings' in Iraq", "Collateral Murder? 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. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. [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. Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. [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. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. 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[67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. 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. [59], An internal legal review by staff at Forward Operating Base Loyalty in Iraq during July 2007 stated that the helicopters had attacked a number of armed insurgents within the rules of engagement, and that in an apparent case of civilian casualties two reporters working for Reuters had also been killed. The majority of us aren't. And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. 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". 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. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. The boy's alive!" Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. [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. 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". [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. [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." When the helicopter pilots discover that they have killed a number of Iraqi civilians and wounded two children, one of them is heard to say: "Well, its their fault for bringing their kids into a battle".[41]. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. That classified video created its own firestorm. Ethan McCord describes the moment he realised Sajad Toman was alive In July 2007, 19 people were killed when an Apache helicopter opened fire on a group of Iraqis whom the pilots had identified. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. [56] U.S. forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Scott Bleichwehl later stated: "There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force". We did unto you what we would not want done to us. She was crying. [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". These people were operating in split second situations.". [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. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. [43] He walks into a building which has been identified as the source of fire at U.S. ground troops. 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[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. They were destroyed. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events". McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. [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. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. [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 is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. He's no longer in the Army. Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. 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. Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . 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. A unit from Bravo Company 216 was within 100 meters of the individuals that were fired upon with 30mm AH-64 Apache cannons. 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