Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. 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. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. 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. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. (The quote begins at 12:22 in video, and the shot that killed Saaed is at 12:25)", "Stephen Colbert Interviews WikiLeaks Founder", "US veterans write apology letter to Iraqis following WikiLeaks video", "We killed your father I'm heartbroken", "Widow of Iraqi killed by US troops in video 'accepts apology' after letter", "Airstrike Video Brings Attention to WikiLeaks Site", "Elliptical vs. treadmill: Which will give you the better workout? I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. "The first thing I thought of was my children at home". The Push to Ban TikTok in the US Isnt About Privacy. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. McCord: Yeah. 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. [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. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.". But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. 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. [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. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. 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". After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. 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. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. [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]. You joke about the situations and what's happened to push away your true feelings of the matter. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. 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. [65][66] [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. 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. Ethan was on the ground at the scene of the shooting, and is seen on the video rushing one of the injured children to a U.S. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. This is urban combat and we're taking the war to children and women and innocents. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. 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. They were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. 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. It was the video that put WikiLeaks on the map: "Collateral Murder" turned the tide of war in Iraq and landed Private first class Bradley Manning in military detention. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. It's obviously a hard thing to see. [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. 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]. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. [32] Assange also said "it's ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context in this video". [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. 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. [92], On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specified charges. 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". The flood of emotions came back. New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. She had a stomach wound? [21], The Air Weapons Team (AWT) of two Apache AH-64s from the 1st Cavalry Division had been requested by the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment (216), 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, before July 12 to support Operation Ilaaj. There is no bringing back all that was lost. 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. 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]. I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. [96] Her trial on the remaining charges began on June 3, 2013. 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. [58] Reuters subsequently asked the U.S. military to probe the deaths. And that in turn is what helped me and Josh write the letter, hoping that it would find its way to them to let them know that we're sorry. Describing doubts over his initial enthusiasm in Iraq, McCord said that "I didnt understand why people were throwing rocks at us, why I was being shot at and why we're being blown up, when I have it in my head that I was here to help these people. [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. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. [18][24][25][26][27] While the two are carrying media cards, a military officer claimed they were not wearing distinctive clothing identifying themselves as such. "[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. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. McCord states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" [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". As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. We acknowledge our part in the deaths and injuries of your loved ones as we tell Americans what we were trained to do and what we carried out in the name of "god and country". Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. 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. [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. 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 . 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. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". These people were operating in split second situations.". We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. Ethan McCord describes the moment he realised Sajad Toman was alive In July 2007, 19 people were killed when an Apache helicopter opened fire on a group of Iraqis whom the pilots had identified. The crew for Crazyhorse 1/9 could not engage due to target obfuscation from buildings and dust. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" I was trying to wash it off in my room. Fox News later stated that "although it could be argued AK-47 rifles are common household items, RPGs are not". She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. Major Brent Cummings claimed they took great pains to prevent the loss of innocent civilian lives. "[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. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. 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. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. 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. [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. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. 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). 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. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. Ukraine Suffered More Wiper Malware in 2022 Than Anywhere, Ever. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". [85] I always questioned it in the back of my mind. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". "[32], The Guardian stated "It is unclear if some of the men are armed but Noor-Eldeen can be seen with a camera". [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". 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. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. I would like the American people and the whole world to understand what happened here in Iraq. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. 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. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our livesfrom culture to business, science to design. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". (quote begins at 5:15)", "Soldiers in 'Collateral Murder' video apologise", "Meet The New Public Face Of WikiLeaks: Kristinn Hrafnsson Forbes", "2 Iraqi Journalists Killed as U.S. [55], Assange stated that the attack on the van was the most damning part of the video: "I'm very sceptical that was done under the rules of engagement; and, if it was legal, the rules of engagement must be changed". I had blood all down the front of me from the children. McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? [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. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. Assange responded: Yes, absolutely Our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. 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 were stating that these people had no weapons whatsoever, that they were just carrying cameras. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. [110], Mark Taylor, an international law expert and a director at the Fafo Institute for International Studies in Norway, told Al Jazeera "there's a case to be made that a war crime may have been committed." "[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. [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. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? . 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. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. That's the hard part to swallow. When we were on that roof, we were still taking fire. She was crying. He was shot and killed. Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". [81] Oh well", and a minute later continued, "Well, it's their fault for bringing kids into a battle". [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". 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. 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. "[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. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. But for Army veteran Ethan McCord, it was just another day on duty. "Our forces were engaged in combat all that day with individuals that fit the description of the men in that video. I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. Inside 'Adam-12' Star, Kent McCord caught the attention of TV lovers when he popularized the "Jim Reed" character in 1968's "Adam-12." McCord maintained the role for seven seasons till the show ended in 1975. Soldier on 2007 Apache Attack: What I Saw", "Redacted internal US Army report: "Investigation into Civilian Casualties Resulting from an Engagement on 12 July 2007 in the New Baghdad District of Baghdad", "WikiLeaks releases video of slaughter in Iraq", "Military shooting of Reuters men online", "Joan Smith: Now we see what war does to those who wage it", "US soldier on Baghdad airstrike: "Not out of the ordinary in Iraq", "2 soldiers in 'Collateral Murder' video apologize. "[88] In this interview, McCord reports that repercussions for seeking mental health help could include being labeled as a "malingerer", a crime under U.S. military law. 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]. 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. [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. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . 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". 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. 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