"I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". The film received an Oscar nomination in January. New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. 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. An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. [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". [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. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. A passing van then stopped and attempted to load a wounded man. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. [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. [18] The report recommends encouraging journalists in Iraq to wear special vests to identify themselves, and to keep the U.S. military updated about their whereabouts. So if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyse and assess. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. McCord: I would be smoked. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. She had a stomach wound? 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". 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. [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. 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. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. 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. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. [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. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. 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. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. There is no bringing back all that was lost. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. 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. And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. 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 was up on a rooftop at that time. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. There had been running gun battles. I had blood all down the front of me from the children. 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]. The story was then overtaken by a more updated one out of Washington that incorporated reporting from the original piece. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. She was crying. 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. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. 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This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". 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. Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Ethan McCord: Right. Wired.com: There was another attack depicted in the video that has received little attention, involving a Hellfire and a building that was fired on. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. 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. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. (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. That classified video created its own firestorm. 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. She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". [60] The Pentagon eventually blocked the FOIA request[25] despite several follow-up requests by Reuters. [43], Assange responded to the investigation report released by the Army in an interview with Democracy Now!, stating that "the tone and language is all about trying to find an excuse for the activity. The boy's alive!" "[88] McCord also recalled being ordered to "kill every motherfucker on the street" in the event of an attack on their convoy. 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. 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. 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". 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. He condemned and reported the massacre as soon as it happened. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. The flood of emotions came back. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. 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. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. Those guys could have just been protecting their area". Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? 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]. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. [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. 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. Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. [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. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? 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". There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". 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. 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? A draft version of the video WikiLeaks produced made reference to the AK-47s and RPGs, but WikiLeaks said that ultimately they became unsure about the RPG, believing the long object could have been a camera tripod, so they decided not to point it out in the released version. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. He opened his eyes when I was carrying him. 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. 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. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". Ukraine Suffered More Wiper Malware in 2022 Than Anywhere, Ever. 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 film received an Oscar nomination in January. [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. 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 . I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. There is no bringing back all that was lost. Killing of Reuters Employees", "Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets", "Iraq war files: Apache Hellfire victims", "US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack", Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers, "Notes from the Courtroom: Alexa O'Brien's Transcript of Pfc. 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). So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. "Our forces were engaged in combat all that day with individuals that fit the description of the men in that video. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. 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. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. He was shot and killed. 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. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. 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. Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. 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. [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. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. McCord: Yeah. 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. [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. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. There were some people taking pot shots, sniper shots, at us on the rooftop. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". It's very disturbing. He looked at me, then his eyes rolled back into this head. 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. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. There's houses behind where the van was. 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. 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. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. [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. 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. 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. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. [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. 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]. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. 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. McCord, who served seven years in the military before leaving in the summer of 2009 due to injuries, recently posted an apologetic letter online with fellow soldier Josh Steiber supporting the release of the video and asking the family's forgiveness. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. [32] The Apache crew alerted the ground troops of the van and requested permission to engage the vehicle before the ground troops arrived. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our livesfrom culture to business, science to design. 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 promise we make to our sources is that not only will we defend them through every means that we have available technologically, legally and politically but we will try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material that they give to us. 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 co-pilot/gunner for Crazyhorse 1/9 spotted three individuals near this building get into a red SUV and drive away to the west. 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. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. 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. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. Give us a picture of what happened that day. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. He runs the girl to the Bradley. McCord is the father of three children. Ethan McCord who says he scooped up the children and at least one of his comrades say the incident revealed the bankrupt brutality of the war. 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