[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. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. [116] The military did not include the attack on the building in their report. "Our forces were engaged in combat all that day with individuals that fit the description of the men in that video. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. Assange responded:[69][70]. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. 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. As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. 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. 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 did unto you what we would not want done to us.". When Bravo Company arrived at the scene, they reported finding two RPGs and an AK-47 or AKM. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. I think it is good that they're putting this stuff out there. 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. [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. Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. I wasn't thinking about it as much. "[88] McCord also recalled being ordered to "kill every motherfucker on the street" in the event of an attack on their convoy. The film received an Oscar nomination in January. We took her in there and we're checking to see if there were any other wounds. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was. 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. [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. All rights reserved. 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. I was told to go pull security on a rooftop. Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. I was called a pussy and that I needed to suck it up and a lot of other horrible things. You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events". 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. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. "[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. [29], A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. There were plenty of times in the past where other insurgents would come by and pick up the bodies, and then we'd have no evidence or anything to what happened, so in looking at it from the Apache's point of view, they were thinking that [someone was] picking up the weapons and bodies; when, in hindsight, clearly they were picking up the wounded man. [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. 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. 2023 Cond Nast. 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. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. But this particular eventthis is clearly murder. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. But you're not supposed to do that in Iraq. Ethan and Josh are available for interviews. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. The review was not released in full until 2010, after the video of the incident had been released by WikiLeaks. They're like, oh yeah, we're the "collateral murder" company. [25] Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com said that "the vast majority of the men were clearly unarmed". There is no bringing back all that was lost. [58] Reuters subsequently asked the U.S. military to probe the deaths. Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. [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". 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[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 grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. Plus: Microsoft fixes several zero-day bugs, Google patches Chrome and Android, Mozilla rids Firefox of a full-screen vulnerability, and more. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. I did see a guy moving from a rooftop from one position to another with an AK-47, who was firing at us. 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. 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. He is seen swinging the weapon below his waist while standing next to the man holding the RPG". We were probably there on the roof for another four to five hours. [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. 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. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". 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. 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. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." 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. It happened because my content was bad. If there's anything I can to do help, I would be more than happy to. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van. Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. 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. Give us a picture of what happened that day. Instead, the Apaches decided to completely obliterate everybody in the van. "[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. 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". Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. 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. 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]. McCord: I have never seen anybody being shot by a 30-millimeter round before. She draws parallels with soldiers who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder in earlier wars. But youyou talked about the fog of war. Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? 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. It's very disturbing. Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. Our heavy hearts still hold hope that we can restore inside our country the acknowledgment of your humanity, that we were taught to deny. [43] He walks into a building which has been identified as the source of fire at U.S. ground troops. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . They're trained as soldiers to go into a building and clear a building. Josh states that these casualties demonstrate the impact of U.S. military policy on both the civilians and the soldiers on the ground. 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 states he was yelled at for not "pulling security". It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. [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." Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. Global Policy Forum distributes this material without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. 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. There is a period of 20 minutes not included on the leaked tape. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. 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. I had blood all down the front of me from the children. [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. 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. Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. A Pentagon spokesman said the video did not contradict the official finding that the helicopters' crew acted within the rules of engagement and said that the inquiry backed the assessment that the group of men were carrying a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). Wired.com: But you had been in combat before. 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[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. [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. He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our livesfrom culture to business, science to design. [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". As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. McCord: I wasn't around that building when it happened. The majority of us aren't. [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". Wired.com: Have you heard from any other soldiers since the video came out? 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Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. [92][93] The Internet chats between Manning and Lamo were revealed to the public by Wired. Daniel Ellsberg, a former United States military analyst who was known for having leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media, said of the airstrike: It would be interesting to have someone speculate or tell us exactly what context would lead to justifying the killing that we see on the screen. I know the scene by heart; it's burned into my head. 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. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". Josh Stieber was not at the scene of the shooting but says similar incidents happened throughout his 14-month tour; "The acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war." 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. I did see a video on YouTube after the Wikileaks [ video ] came out, of the children being interviewed. So I went to a sergeant and asked to see [the mental health person], because I was having a hard time dealing with it. "[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. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. She was crying. Towards the end of the show, the star actor became an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and after he left "Adam-12." [47] The Australian newspaper said the group was displaying "no obvious hostile action". Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. 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. 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