[17] Politifact stated: "When Assange points out in the context of justifying the title 'Collateral Murder' that the word 'RPG' was not used until after permission to engage was given, he leaves the impression that the soldiers were given the okay to open fire on a group of unarmed men, or men believed to be unarmed. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. ", The letter, which they hope to get to the family who lost their father and whose children were injured in the attack, states that they "are acknowledging our responsibility for bringing the battle to your neighborhood, and to your family. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. There were plenty of times in the past where other insurgents would come by and pick up the bodies, and then we'd have no evidence or anything to what happened, so in looking at it from the Apache's point of view, they were thinking that [someone was] picking up the weapons and bodies; when, in hindsight, clearly they were picking up the wounded man. I just kept telling him, "Don't die; don't die." [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. 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". So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. Ukraine Suffered More Wiper Malware in 2022 Than Anywhere, Ever. 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. "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". I'm going to help that person. 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. "[4] The New York Times wrote that "Critics contend that the shorter video was misleading because it did not make clear that the attacks took place amid clashes in the neighborhood and that one of the men was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade. And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. 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. [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". [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. There were some people taking pot shots, sniper shots, at us on the rooftop. I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. "[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. 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. He condemned and reported the massacre as soon as it happened. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. Assange responded: Yes, absolutely Our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". 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. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? 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. Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. 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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. 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. 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. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. 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. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." [81] Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. It's very disturbing. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. 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. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. McCord, in New York for the festival premiere, told the story of what he experienced while saving two children wounded in the incident. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. [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). 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. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. 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. "[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". [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. To all of those who were injured or lost loved ones during the July 2007 Baghdad shootings depicted in the "Collateral Murder" Wikileaks video: We write to you, your family, and your community with awareness that our words and actions can never restore your losses. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. [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. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? soldiers. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. On June 7, 2010, The New Yorker reported that Kristinn Hrafnsson, an investigative reporter who worked on the Collateral Murder video and later became a spokesman for WikiLeaks,[54] said he had found the owner of the building involved in the incident. 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". An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. [104][105][106][107] Pursuant to a commutation by President Obama, Chelsea Manning was released on May 17, 2017. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. 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. classified video created its own firestorm. 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]. [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. [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. . In the first example maybe it's collateral exaggeration or incompetence when they strafe the initial gathering, this is recklessness bordering on murder, but you couldn't say for sure that was murder. 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. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. The boy's alive!" Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw, Ethan McCord had just returned from dropping his children at school earlier this month, when he turned on the TV news to see grainy black-and-white video footage of a soldier running from a bombed-out van with a child in his arms. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. Ethan McCord was a member of the military unit in "Collateral Murder" - the Wikileaks video showing 12 Iraqis being killed from a US helicopter.He rescued the two children severely wounded in the attack and is now speaking out to corroborate the Collateral Murder video. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. 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". The film received an Oscar nomination in January. In refusing to recognize this, the US military fails both its own soldiers and their victims. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. [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 ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". I've spoken with other soldiers who were there. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. [32] The Apache crew alerted the ground troops of the van and requested permission to engage the vehicle before the ground troops arrived. 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". I was up on a rooftop at that time. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. These people were operating in split second situations.". 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. She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". [115], While the Air Weapons Team was providing support at the first engagement area they were informed by ground troops that they were receiving small arms fire from the south/southwest. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. 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. BACKGROUND ON JOSH STIEBER: Branch of service: United States Army (USA) Unit: 1st ID Rank: Spc. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. All rights reserved. It's very disturbing. There's no easy way to kill somebody. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. It could be that since he and Amelia (Sigrid Thornton) have quit. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. 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. 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. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. [43] He walks into a building which has been identified as the source of fire at U.S. ground troops. James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the . Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" More than a dozen people were killed in three attacks captured in the video, including two Reuters journalists, one carrying a camera that was apparently mistaken for a weapon. Two men assisting in the rescue effort were from a group of five standing at an intersection seen in the upper right corner of the video when the Reuters employees arrive in the courtyard reported to Apaches as being a second position combatants were using to attack the Humvee. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. "[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. 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. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. McCord is the father of three children. Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. I always questioned it in the back of my mind. They did have weapons there. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. I was also told that there would be repercussions if I was to go to mental health. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. 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. 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. They're trained as soldiers to go into a building and clear a building. China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. [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". We heard the gunships open up. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. 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. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. [50] In a later interview on the World Socialist Web Site, Stieber said that the attack "exposes so clearly the fallacy of using war as a tool of foreign policy or as a way to supposedly spread 'freedom and democracy' around the world".[51]. The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. [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". It wasnt like a cry of pain really. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. Wired.com: How much sniper fire were you getting? 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]. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. [96] Her trial on the remaining charges began on June 3, 2013. I didn't know if he was telling me that just to get me to shut up and to do my job or if he really found something out. Please accept our apology, our sorrow, our care, and our dedication to change from the inside out. Josh . There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. A unit from Bravo Company 216 was within 100 meters of the individuals that were fired upon with 30mm AH-64 Apache cannons. She had a stomach wound? 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. There's no front lines here. 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. [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. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. That's the hard part to swallow. This is his account of what he saw. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. They also found 10-year-old Sajad Mutashar and his five-year-old sister Doaha covered in blood in a van. "[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. 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. We took her in there and we're checking to see if there were any other wounds. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. [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". 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