Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. You don't just take somebody's life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. 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". 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. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. classified video created its own firestorm. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. That classified video created its own firestorm. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. 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]. He was kind of sitting on the floorboard of the van, but with his head laying on the bench seat in the front. 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. Assange responded: Yes, absolutely Our promise to the public is that we will release the full source material. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. 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]. [118][119], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}331849N 443043E / 33.3137N 44.512E / 33.3137; 44.512 (Airstrike of 2007-07-12). Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. Killing of Reuters Employees", "Dealing With Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets", "Iraq war files: Apache Hellfire victims", "US soldier on aftermath of WikiLeaks Apache attack", Leaked U.S. video shows deaths of Reuters' Iraqi staffers, "Notes from the Courtroom: Alexa O'Brien's Transcript of Pfc. The crew for Crazyhorse 1/9 could not engage due to target obfuscation from buildings and dust. It also states that "The cameras could easily be mistaken for slung AK-47 or AKM rifles, especially since neither cameraman is wearing anything that identifies him as media or press". "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. 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's obviously a hard thing to see. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. A unit from Bravo Company 216 was within 100 meters of the individuals that were fired upon with 30mm AH-64 Apache cannons. 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. McCord, in New York for the festival premiere, told the story of what he experienced while saving two children wounded in the incident. [16][18][30] After the lead helicopter fires, one of the crew shouts "Hahaha. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. Solemnly and Sincerely, Josh Stieber, former specialist, U.S. Army Ethan McCord, former specialist, U.S. Army. [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. WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists". It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. [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 went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. He runs the girl to the Bradley. 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. 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. 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. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? However, the co-pilot/gunner then observed a child and some other non-combatants in the vicinity of the individuals and decided to hold off on the engagement until the non-combatants were clear. 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. 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. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. 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. They were destroyed. 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]. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three [], All the Settings You Should Change on Your New Samsung Phone, Its Time to Fall in Love With Nuclear FusionAgain, Give Your Back a Break With Our Favorite Office Chairs, Fat, Sugar, Salt Youve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong, Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. 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. It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. There is no bringing back all that was lost. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. 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. He condemned and reported the massacre as soon as it happened. Towards the end of the show, the star actor became an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and after he left "Adam-12." [87], McCord discussed his experience in the battle in an interview with the World Socialist Web Site on April 28, 2010, stating, "What happened then was not an isolated incident. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. 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. After getting permission to fire, the Apache crew fired on the van. [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". [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." 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. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. [63] The site stated on its Twitter account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. He looked at me, then his eyes rolled back into this head. I just kept telling him, "Don't die; don't die." [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'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. I have a huge place in my heart for children, having some of my own. The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". [57], Reuters reported that it could locate no witnesses who had seen gunmen in the immediate area. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. [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. [47] Greenwald called the second airstrike a "plainly unjustified killing of a group of unarmed men carrying away an unarmed, seriously wounded man to safety". [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." It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". 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. If you or I saw someone wounded on the ground what is your first inkling? On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. 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. 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. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. I think that the bigger picture is what are we doing there? China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. We took her in there and we're checking to see if there were any other wounds. 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. They're smoking you, they're making you tired. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". 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". "[88] McCord also recalled being ordered to "kill every motherfucker on the street" in the event of an attack on their convoy. [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". 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. 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. soldiers. 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. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. Those guys could have just been protecting their area". FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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. 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