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." "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. 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. 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". [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. [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". 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. [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". [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. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. 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 . That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. (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. Ethan McCord, who was one of the first soldiers on the scene in the 2007 attack, told Wired.com that he saw several weapons at the scene, including a rocket propelled grenade launcher. It's obviously a hard thing to see. [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". 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. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. McCord: I wasn't around that building when it happened. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. [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. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. [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 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. 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]. [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]. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. 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. [65][66] "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. He looked at me, then his eyes rolled back into this head. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. He added, "I think what this video shows is really a case that challenges whether the laws of war are strict enough. Major Brent Cummings claimed they took great pains to prevent the loss of innocent civilian lives. Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. WikiLeaks stated 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. [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. 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. Noor-Eldeen fails to photograph the Apache but three pictures of the U.S. Humvee appear on his camera's memory card when it was recovered by U.S. soldiers. "[60], Early in 2010, the Internet whistleblower site WikiLeaks made a public request for assistance in decrypting a video it described as "US bomb strikes on civilians", specifically requesting access to supercomputer time. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. After attending to the girl's wounds and handing her to a medic, McCord was ordered to take position on the roof but he returned to the van to find the boy moving his hand. [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. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. Josh . "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". [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." [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. These people were operating in split second situations.". [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. [18][25][31] Chmagh was killed[18][25][31] along with three other men, while two children, not known to be in the van to the U.S. forces, were injured. [59] Reuters requested a copy of the full video under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the same day. Smith describes this reaction as inhuman. [92][93] The Internet chats between Manning and Lamo were revealed to the public by Wired. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? We're sorry for the system that we were involved in that took their father's life and injured them. The boy's alive!" [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". The film received an Oscar nomination in January. 2023 Cond Nast. [2][22] Pentagon officials told the Reuters news agency that U.S. military lawyers were reviewing the video and could reopen an investigation into the incident,[67] but a spokesperson later said that there were no plans to reopen the investigation. 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On 19 April 2010, Ethan McCord, who appears on the ground in the video, and Josh Steiber, a member of the same company who was not present on the day, wrote an open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People apologising for the events in the video. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . There's houses behind where the van was. 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. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. McCord: I have never seen anybody being shot by a 30-millimeter round before. [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. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. Wired.com: Did you try to get information about the two children after the shooting? Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. This is urban combat and we're taking the war to children and women and innocents. Wired.com: Civilians are supposed to know that they're not supposed to pick up a wounded person crawling in the road? As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. [15] An anonymous U.S. military official confirmed the authenticity of the footage,[16] which provoked global discussion on the legality and morality of the attacks. [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. McCord admits that she was sad to go because she had been there for a decade and a half, but that "it wasn't the end of the world" and that she wasn't worried for "a nanosecond" that . 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. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. 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. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. 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 shouldn't have surprised you what you saw. 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. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". 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. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. I went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. Assange responded: Yes, absolutely Our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" Bill Keller of The New York Times wrote, "But in its zeal to make the video a work of antiwar propaganda, WikiLeaks also released a version that didn't call attention to an Iraqi who was toting a rocket-propelled grenade and packaged the manipulated version under the tendentious rubric Collateral Murder. 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. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. 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. [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. He runs the girl to the Bradley. There had been running gun battles. I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. [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. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. 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. 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. There's no before and there's no after". [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. 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. There is no bringing back all that was lost. It could be that since he and Amelia (Sigrid Thornton) have quit. He's no longer in the Army. 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. [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. Eamonn McCann Mon Aug 19 2013 - 20:49 Bradley Manning was scheduled to speak yesterday at the sentencing phase of his trial for having leaked 750,000 pages of classified documents and videos to. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. There's no easy way to kill somebody. 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. I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. They're trained as soldiers to go into a building and clear a building. 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". Just over a year ago, WikiLeaks released footage from a gunsight camera of an Apache helicopter engaged in an attack that killed two journalists and eight ci. 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. [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). 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. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. [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." She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. 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. It's very disturbing. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". Global Policy Forum distributes this material without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. I'm going to help that person. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. [81] Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. And that in turn is what helped me and Josh write the letter, hoping that it would find its way to them to let them know that we're sorry. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. [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". 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. [64] The footage was released during an April 5 press conference at the US National Press Club, and subsequently on a designated website titled Collateral Murder. 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. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. 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]. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? [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. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? 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. I wasn't thinking about it as much. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. However, according to the co-pilot for Crazyhorse 1/8 they failed to positively identify the occupants as combatants and returned to the previous engagement area. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. 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