I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. I would like the American people and the whole world to understand what happened here in Iraq. He condemned and reported the massacre as soon as it happened. [2], After the U.S. military concluded that the actions of the soldiers were in accordance with the law of armed conflict and its own "Rules of Engagement", WikiLeaks released the classified Rules of Engagement for 2006, 2007 and 2008, revealing the rules before, during, and after the attacks. [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. [104][105][106][107] Pursuant to a commutation by President Obama, Chelsea Manning was released on May 17, 2017. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. [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". It's very disturbing. [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. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. They did have weapons there. McCord: Yeah. In an Al Jazeera English interview on April 19, 2010, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange explained why WikiLeaks titled the video Collateral Murder: And you can see that they also deliberately target Saaed, a wounded man there on the ground, despite their earlier belief that they didn't have the rules of engagementthat the rules of engagement did not permit them to kill Saeed when he was wounded. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. There had been running gun battles. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. [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". 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. [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. Advertisement. 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. This is why we called it Collateral Murder. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." I wasn't thinking about it as much. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. 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. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". That's when I started screaming, "The boy's alive! Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. 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". Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. 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 probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? 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. 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And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. 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. The flood of emotions came back. It's very clear that that is the approach, to try and find any mechanism to excuse the behavior, and that is what ended up happening. 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". It's very disturbing. [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. In an interview on NPR on April 6, the day after the Collateral Murder video release, David Finkel said that the Reuters reporters were not embedded with anyone, but working independently. We're sorry for the system that we were involved in that took their father's life and injured them. 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. Inside 'Adam-12' Star, Kent McCord caught the attention of TV lovers when he popularized the "Jim Reed" character in 1968's "Adam-12." McCord maintained the role for seven seasons till the show ended in 1975. 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. You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events". There is no bringing back all that was lost. Josh . [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. I've had nightmares. Please accept our apology, our sorrow, our care, and our dedication to change from the inside out. 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. McCord: There were approximately two to three other people who were moving who were still somewhat alive, and the medics were attending to them. 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. 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. 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. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. 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 have asked our fellow veterans and service-members, as well as civilians both in the United States and abroad, to sign in support of this letter, and to offer their names as a testimony to our common humanity, to distance ourselves from the destructive policies of our nation's leaders, and to extend our hands to you. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. It was more of a child who was frightened out of her mind. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. 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. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. [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. 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. The company was supported by two Apache helicopters from the 1st Cavalry Division's Aviation Brigade, call signs "Crazyhorse 1/8" and "Crazyhorse 1/9". 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? And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." 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". [17] Julian Assange said "permission to engage was given before the word 'RPG' was ever used". The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. 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 is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. They also found 10-year-old Sajad Mutashar and his five-year-old sister Doaha covered in blood in a van. There were some people taking pot shots, sniper shots, at us on the rooftop. McCord, together with another former member of the company, Josh Stieber, have addressed an open "Letter of Reconciliation" to the Iraqi people taking responsibility for their role in this. 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. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. 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 in New York next week. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". 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. There's no before and there's no after". Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. 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". They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. So if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyse and assess. What we seek is to learn from our mistakes and do everything we can to tell others of our experiences and how the people of the United States need to realize we have done and are doing to you and the people of your country. He's no longer in the Army. 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. On the same day as the NPR interview, Finkel was asked how he had seen the unedited video and whether WikiLeaks had shown it to him. Those guys could have just been protecting their area". He was shot and killed. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. 2023 Cond Nast. [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". WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. She had a stomach wound? Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. (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. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. 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. There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. Their overall mission that day was to protect us, to provide support for us, so I can see where the initial attack on the group of men was warranted. Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. I just kept telling him, "Don't die; don't die." 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. "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. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. "[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. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. The boy's alive!" [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. [Then] we were just told to move to this [other] location. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. The majority of us aren't. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". [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 McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. [92], On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specified charges. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. All rights reserved. [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. 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. As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. I went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. He added, "I think what this video shows is really a case that challenges whether the laws of war are strict enough. Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. 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. He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. 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). "[32], The Guardian stated "It is unclear if some of the men are armed but Noor-Eldeen can be seen with a camera". But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. We acknowledge our part in the deaths and injuries of your loved ones as we tell Americans what we were trained to do and what we carried out in the name of "god and country". 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. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" 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. [32] Assange also said "it's ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context in this video". [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. 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. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. "[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. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. There's no front lines here. [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]. 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. [18][24][25][26][27] While the two are carrying media cards, a military officer claimed they were not wearing distinctive clothing identifying themselves as such. He looked at me, then his eyes rolled back into this head. [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." [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. There's houses behind where the van was. 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. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. [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. [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. 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. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. That's the hard part to swallow. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. Kids to battle. world in constant transformation and reported the massacre as soon as happened... 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