We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. 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. When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. [58] Reuters subsequently asked the U.S. military to probe the deaths. FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. There's no front lines here. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. 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. McCord: Yeah. Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. I went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. All rights reserved. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. 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. 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. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. Part of Banksy's, This page was last edited on 20 February 2023, at 21:26. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. 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. She was crying. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. 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. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. 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. [92], On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specified charges. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. 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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. [18] Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. 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. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. We're sorry for the system that we were involved in that took their father's life and injured them. The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. [28] Noor-Eldeen has a camera and Chmagh is talking on his mobile phone. I was also told that there would be repercussions if I was to go to mental health. "[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. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. Ad Choices, U.S. "[111] An article at Gawker stated that Reuters reporter Luke Baker had written an article claiming that the airstrikes may have been war crimes, but Reuters refused to run the story. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. [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. We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. 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". The flood of emotions came back. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. That classified video created its own firestorm when the whistleblower site Wikileaks posted it April 5 on a website titled "Collateral Murder" and asserted that the attack was unprovoked. [61] The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.[43]. That stays with you. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. There's no easy way to kill somebody. The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. I was trying to wash it off in my room. 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. She had a stomach wound? ", 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. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. 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However, I don't feel that the attack on the [rescue] van was necessary. 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. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. 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. [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? It's very disturbing. [Then] we were just told to move to this [other] location. It wasnt like a cry of pain really. 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. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. 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. The ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". [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. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. [43] It concluded that an investigating officer would want to know how the armed men were identified as combatants from the earlier engagement; would question the nature of the collateral-damage estimate carried out by the crew before the missiles were launched; and would wish to determine whether a missile attack was a proportionate response to the threat. 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. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. 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. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. [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. I'm going to help that person. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. That's why so many soldiers come back home and they're no longer in the situations where they have other things to think about or other people to joke about what happened and they explode. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" [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". He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. That's the hard part to swallow. "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. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. 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". Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. [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. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." [25] Both videos depict the attack on the van, van driver, and two other men, and the aftermath when the two seriously injured children were evacuated by U.S. ground forces who arrived on the scene. Josh . Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. 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] Assange also said "it's ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context in this video". 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. They also found 10-year-old Sajad Mutashar and his five-year-old sister Doaha covered in blood in a van. Ethan McCord: Right. He's no longer in the Army. I can accept their apology, because they saved my children, and if it were not for them, maybe my two little children would be dead. We heard the gunships open up. 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. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. They heard about something, they came to it and they just wantedfrom everything I've learned since, they were just there to get that side of the story. There is no bringing back all that was lost. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." [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". Wired.com: Did you try to get information about the two children after the shooting? You joke about the situations and what's happened to push away your true feelings of the matter. 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. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. 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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. 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. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. McCord: My platoon sergeant knew that I was having a hard time with it and that same night he came into the room and he told me, hey, just so you know, both of the children survived, so you can suck it up now. The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. I've had nightmares. There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. 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. 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". Smoked is basically like you're doing pushups a lot, you're doing sit-ups crunches and flutter kicks. Using short sentences, similar punctuation, or using the same words frequently as well as using Grammarly can boost your content as AI written. We took her in there and we're checking to see if there were any other wounds. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. 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. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. 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. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. [62] At a February 2013 pretrial hearing, Manning stated that Finkel "was quoting, I feel in verbatim, the audio communications of the aerial weapons team crew". Assange responded:[69][70]. It's very disturbing. [18] A long shadow cast on the ground by a telephoto lens on Noor-Eldeen's camera is misidentified by the pilot as an additional RPG aimed at him and a U.S. Army Humvee directly below his aircraft. 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". 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. The majority of us aren't. I was up on a rooftop at that time. 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". After the video was released, one of the soldiers involved in the incident, Ethan McCord, stated the following: "If you feel threatened in any way, you're able to engage that person. The boy's alive!" [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]. But youyou talked about the fog of war. 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. The event was covered by Al Jazeera English and Reuters,[16] and later by The Washington Post,[82] The New York Times,[2] The Christian Science Monitor,[83] the BBC,[66] and CNN. 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." [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. "[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". He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. [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". 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. [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. [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. "[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. That classified video created its own firestorm. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. "[88] McCord also recalled being ordered to "kill every motherfucker on the street" in the event of an attack on their convoy. 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. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. [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. [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. classified video created its own firestorm. [32] The Apache crew alerted the ground troops of the van and requested permission to engage the vehicle before the ground troops arrived. Oh well", and a minute later continued, "Well, it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle". This is his account of what he saw. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. [61] Speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. [92][93] The Internet chats between Manning and Lamo were revealed to the public by Wired. 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