It's very disturbing. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. [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. The Apache crew saw unarmed[25] men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh. [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". It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. "[90], James Spione made a short documentary film about the airstrikes called Incident in New Baghdad, featuring a first-person account from Ethan McCord. I know the van, I know the faces of everybody that was there that day. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. 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. [32] The legal review carried out by the U.S. Army stated that the two children were evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital via Forward Operating Base Loyalty, then transferred to an Iraqi medical facility the next day. I hit 'em" and another member of the crew responds "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards".[29]. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. [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. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. 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. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". 2023 Cond Nast. [32], U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates criticized WikiLeaks for releasing the video without providing any context. 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. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.". It shouldn't have surprised you what you saw. 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. The video doesn't show the broader picture of the firing that was going on at American troops. The soldier, Ethan McCord, has since been discharged from the military and has been an outspoken voice against the Iraq War. The owner told him that three families were living in the building and seven residents had died, including his wife and daughter. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. China Is Relentlessly Hacking Its Neighbors. [8] The video, which WikiLeaks titled Collateral Murder, showed the crew firing on a group of men and killing several of them, then laughing at some of the casualties, all of whom were civilians, including two Reuters journalists. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. 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 who says he scooped up the children and at least one of his comrades say the incident revealed the bankrupt brutality of the war. 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. Give us a picture of what happened that day. [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. 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. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. 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. [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. [81], Publicity of the incident ballooned following the release of the footage. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. McCord admits that she was sad to go because she had been there for a decade and a half, but that "it wasn't the end of the world" and that she wasn't worried for "a nanosecond" that . But the video and accompanying audio make clear that the soldiers in the helicopter said they spotted 'weapons' among those in the grouplater identified by an internal army investigator as an AK-47 and an RPG. He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. 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. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. . Solemnly and Sincerely, Josh Stieber, former specialist, U.S. Army Ethan McCord, former specialist, U.S. Army. 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. [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 wasn't thinking about it as much. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. There's no before and there's no after". As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. But the time is long overdue that we say that the value of our nation's leaders no longer represent us. 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. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. 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. It's very disturbing. 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. This is his account of what he saw. [21][79], The New Yorker praised its release, calling it "a striking artifactan unmediated representation of the ambiguities and cruelties of modern warfare".[3]. [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". 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. It's obviously a hard thing to see. [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. I was diagnosed with chronic, severe PTSD. [18] Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. I was trying to wash it off in my room. [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. In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. 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. Home: Laytonsville, Maryland Served in: Baghdad (Rustamiyah) 07-08 Fort Riley, KS 06-07, 08-09, BACKGROUND ON ETHAN MCCORD: Branch of service: United States Army (USA) Unit: 1st ID Rank: Spc. 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. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". 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. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. [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. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. 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. [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". The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. He's no longer in the Army. So, the first thing I did was grab the girl. The story was then overtaken by a more updated one out of Washington that incorporated reporting from the original piece. 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. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. [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. 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". Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? [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". soldiers. 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. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . 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 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. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. 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. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. The footage was portrayed as classified,[7] but the individual who leaked it, U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning,[a] testified in 2013 that the video was not classified. 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. [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. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. Minutes after the first engagement ended, the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair use, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. Gabriel Schoenfeld, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, said of the airstrike: It is precisely the presence of weapons, including RPGs, that goes a long distance toward explaining why cameramen for Reuterspointing television cameras around corners in a battle zonewere readily mistaken by our gunships for insurgents. 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. I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with 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. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. I went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. They split up and the footage follows one who appears to be armed. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. [60] The Pentagon eventually blocked the FOIA request[25] despite several follow-up requests by Reuters. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. 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. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. 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". "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. Two men assisting in the rescue effort were from a group of five standing at an intersection seen in the upper right corner of the video when the Reuters employees arrive in the courtyard reported to Apaches as being a second position combatants were using to attack the Humvee. 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. She had a stomach wound? The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. McCord: I doubt that they were a part of that firefight. 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. [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". The missile hits the building, and the man is caught in the explosion. 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". Responsibility for civilian deaths in such encounters rests with those who violate the rules of war. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. We're sorry for the system that we were involved in that took their father's life and injured them. 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. Michael Bailey a medic who treated some of. Advertisement. All rights reserved. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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. 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). [18][19] The crew estimates the group is twenty men. That stays with you. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. Many soldiers felt threatened just by the fact that you were looking at them, so they fired their weapons on anybody that was looking at them because they (I . 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. [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. 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. As Russia has accelerated its cyberattacks on its neighbor, it's barraged the country with an unprecedented volume of different data-destroying programs. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. 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. 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. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. They also found two Canon EOS digital cameras with telephoto lenses. [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. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". 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. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. 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. I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. The WikiLeaks edited video did not add arrows pointing to these men, or label them, as it did with the men carrying cameras. Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. 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