[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. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. Their request was denied at the briefing and they were told to seek access under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. 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. 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. I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". 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. Ethan McCord, a 33-year-old Army specialist, was engaged in a firefight with insurgents in an Iraqi suburb in July 2007, when his platoon, part of Bravo Company, 2-16 Infantry, got orders to. "[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". This is his account of what he saw. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. This is why we called it Collateral Murder. 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. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. Advertisement. The story was then overtaken by a more updated one out of Washington that incorporated reporting from the original piece. 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. [88], McCord requested mental health assistance following his experiences on July 12, but was told by his superior officers to "get the sand out of [his] vagina" and to "suck it up and be a soldier". McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. There's also some soldiers who joke about it [as a] coping mechanism. [18] Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. It's obviously a hard thing to see. 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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. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. 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]. A school district is mourning the loss of a 13-year-old student who was found dead along with 3 other family members after a "potential murder-suicide" in Clermont County.It happened around 9:41 a . We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. 2023 Cond Nast. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. 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. [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. I had blood all down the front of me from the children. 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. 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. There's no before and there's no after". 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. They also found 10-year-old Sajad Mutashar and his five-year-old sister Doaha covered in blood in a van. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. 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. 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. 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. 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. [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". There's no easy way to kill somebody. "[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 flood of emotions came back. 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". [108][109], In a June 7, 2010, article in The New Yorker, Raffi Khatchadourian addressed several issues involved in determining the legality of the attacks, including "proportionality", "positive identification" ("reasonable certainty" that the target has hostile intent), and "the treatment of casualties during an ongoing military operation". 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. 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. [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. [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]. 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. 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. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. 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. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. [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." The first real serious doubt, where I could no longer justify to myself being in Iraq or serving in the Army, was on that day in July 2007. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. 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. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. She was crying. 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. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. 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. 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. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. [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. The boy's alive!" [59] Reuters requested a copy of the full video under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the same day. 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. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. 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[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". The crew then reposition the helicopter and fire two more missiles into the upper floors of the building[44], WikiLeaks said in the preface to one of their videos of the incident 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. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. McCord is the father of three children. 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. [92][93] The Internet chats between Manning and Lamo were revealed to the public by Wired. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". But youyou talked about the fog of war. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to new ways of thinking, new connections, and new industries. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. [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. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. Towards the end of the show, the star actor became an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and after he left "Adam-12." I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. [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. 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. 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 wasnt like a cry of pain really. The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. Smith describes this reaction as inhuman. I've spoken with other soldiers who were there. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. These people were operating in split second situations.". But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. 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. All rights reserved. [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. The company was charged with clearing their sector of any small armed forces, and had been under fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). 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. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? [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. He was shot and killed. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. Fox News later stated that "although it could be argued AK-47 rifles are common household items, RPGs are not". That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." 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. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. 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. 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. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. 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. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. "[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. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. [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. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. Ethan Mccord and Josh Stieber deployed to Baghdad with Bravo Company 2-16 in 2007. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. 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. 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. It shouldn't have surprised you what you saw. 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. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. 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