Ethan McCord who says he scooped up the children and at least one of his comrades say the incident revealed the bankrupt brutality of the war. [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. The Wikileaks videos also do not reveal the hundreds upon hundreds of cases in which American forces refrain from attacking targets precisely because civilians are in harm's way.[80]. 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. [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. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? "[32], The Guardian stated "It is unclear if some of the men are armed but Noor-Eldeen can be seen with a camera". [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. 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. I always questioned it in the back of my mind. 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 girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. 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. 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. 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. She said that she was "aghast" at Finkel's portrayal of the incident. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. I wasn't thinking about it as much. [104][105][106][107] Pursuant to a commutation by President Obama, Chelsea Manning was released on May 17, 2017. Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. 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. "[112], On April 5, 2010, the same day as the release of the video footage by WikiLeaks, the United States Central Command, which oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, released a collection of documents including two investigative reports. Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded. So if people have a different opinion, the full material is there for them to analyse and assess. 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. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. [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. She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". 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. The ground controller responds, "If you've [positively identified] the individuals in the building with weapons, go ahead and engage the building". 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. I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. 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. Oh well", and a minute later continued, "Well, it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle". [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. [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. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. 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. That's the hard part to swallow. That stays with you. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. [17], In an interview with Fox News Assange said that "it's likely some of the individuals seen in the video were carrying weapons" and "based upon visual evidence I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG, but I'm not sure that means anything. The company was supported by two Apache helicopters from the 1st Cavalry Division's Aviation Brigade, call signs "Crazyhorse 1/8" and "Crazyhorse 1/9". Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. Our government may ignore you, concerned more with its public image. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . 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. [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". Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. In addition to five[98][99] or six[100][101][102] espionage counts, she was also found guilty of five theft specifications, two computer fraud specifications and multiple military infractions. He added, "I think what this video shows is really a case that challenges whether the laws of war are strict enough. [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. [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. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. 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. [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. 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. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.". There's no front lines here. 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]. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. Ethan Cord (Horsley) is still a man with a conscience, and kids, but he is also less reluctant to rely on his ability with a gun. There is no bringing back all that was lost. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. The flood of emotions came back. [18] The report recommends encouraging journalists in Iraq to wear special vests to identify themselves, and to keep the U.S. military updated about their whereabouts. 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. 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. He was shot and killed. [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. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. In the video, you can clearly see that they did have weapons to the trained eye." I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. 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. As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. It's very disturbing. 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. [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". 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]. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. 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. 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. Advertisement. 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. 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". 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. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. 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. As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. Josh Stieber was in the same company but was not there that day, though he contributed to the your pain, and the pain of your community on many other occasions. Stuff like that happens on a daily basis in Iraq. [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. I was up on a rooftop at that time. 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 military said that the van was "fair game under Army rules" , because it had no visible markings to suggest it was an ambulance or a protected vehicle. [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". 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. McCord: Yeah. He later sought help for psychological trauma, but was ridiculed by his NCO and told that if he were to go to the mental health officer, "there would be repercussions". 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. [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our livesfrom culture to business, science to design. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. 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. We're sorry for the system that we were involved in that took their father's life and injured them. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. [81] It was more of a child who was frightened out of her mind. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. [68], Stephen Colbert, in an interview with Assange in April 2010, asked him about the title: "You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called 'Collateral Murder'. Major Brent Cummings claimed they took great pains to prevent the loss of innocent civilian lives. 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 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. 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 grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". Among the group were two Iraqi war correspondents working for Reuters, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. 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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 had blood all down the front of me from the children. 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. 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. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. 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. It shouldn't have surprised you what you saw. 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. When the crew were informed that a child had been injured by their attack, one initially responded, "Ah damn. 2023 Cond Nast. [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. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. She was crying. [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. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. McCord: I would be smoked. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. Ethan McCord was a U.S. soldier on patrol in Baghdad in July 2007 when he came upon a scene he says he'd never encountered. Ethan McCord: From Atrocities in Iraq to Resisting U.S. Wars Tweet This interview was done by and first appeared in Revolution newspaper Revolution: In the attack shown in the WikiLeaks video, you were part of the unit that was at the scene, on the ground. The promise we make to our sources is that not only will we defend them through every means that we have available technologically, legally and politically but we will try and get the maximum possible political impact for the material that they give to us. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. Ethan and Josh claim that though their unit was following the Rules of Engagement that day, they are taking responsibility for their role in the incident and initiating a dialogue around it; "Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. It could be that since he and Amelia (Sigrid Thornton) have quit. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG. It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. There's no before and there's no after". "[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. 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