[103], On August 21, 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment, reduction in rank from private first class to private, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and a dishonorable discharge. Soldier Ethan McCord speaking about the civilian massacre documented in WikiLeaks's April 2010 vid. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. 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. 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. Soldier Ethan McCord's Eyewitness Story, "Shadowed, Clamoring, Blurry. [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". The report concludes that the Reuters employees were in the company of armed insurgents. 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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I was pretty distraught over the whole situation with the children. The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. [92], On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of 22 specified charges. 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. [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. [97] On July 30, Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. [78] Gates stated: "They're in a combat situation. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. Ethan Mccord and Josh Stieber deployed to Baghdad with Bravo Company 2-16 in 2007. What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. 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 McCord: Right. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital. It has also ignored many veterans who have returned physically injured or mentally troubled by what they saw and did in your country. For about 5 to 10 minutes the team diverted its attention to this vehicle. 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Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. [39][40] Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. [18][25][31] As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. 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. That stays with you. [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. This is his account of what he saw. We did unto you what we would not want done to us.". 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. 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. [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". These people were operating in split second situations.". Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. (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. The boy's alive!" 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 went back outside to the van, and that's when the boy took, like, a labored, breath. "These people can put out anything they want, and they're never held accountable for it. I grabbed the medic and we went into the back. Knowing that I was part of the system that took their father away from them and made them lose their house it's heartbreaking. [32], On the day of the attack the U.S. military reported that the two journalists were killed along with nine insurgents, and that the helicopter engagement was related to a U.S. troop raid force that had been attacked by small-arms fire and RPGs. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. Well in all actuality, we brought the battle to your kids. 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. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. 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. Lawmakers are increasingly hellbent on punishing the popular social network while efforts to pass a broader privacy law have dwindled. [16] The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video. [42] According to the internal legal review, the helicopters engaged a group of armed insurgents, and that some were seen entering a nearby building. How is this guy supposed to [decide] should I stop and pick them up, or is the military going to shoot me? He responded, "I hadn't heard of WikiLeaks before yesterday. 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. For instance, the Web site takes special care to slow down the video and identify the two photographers and the cameras they are carrying. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. After the incident, we went back to the FOB [forward operating base] and that's when I was in my room. [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. 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. [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". 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. [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. There had been running gun battles. 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. This is urban combat and we're taking the war to children and women and innocents. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. That's the hard part to swallow. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. 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 always questioned it in the back of my mind. [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. 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. http://www.mediasanctuary.orghttp://www.wikileaks.org U.S. I'm guilty of it, too, myself. 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. "[46] Assange later said "Based upon visual evidence, I suspect there probably were AKs and an RPG, but I'm not sure that means anything". [32] Assange also said "it's ludicrous to allege that we have taken anything out of context in this video". She concluded that command structures need to be in place to identify "combatants with serious psychological problems". 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). [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. And then the father, who I'm assuming was the father, in the driver's seat slumped over on his side. 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. You don't just take somebody's life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. 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. 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. Using short sentences, similar punctuation, or using the same words frequently as well as using Grammarly can boost your content as AI written. All rights reserved. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial." I based the account in my book on multiple sources, all unclassified". 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 . [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. [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. [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. 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. FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. McCord: It was random sporadic spurts. [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. 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. 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. When I saw their faces, I was relieved, but I was just heartbroken. [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. 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. And where the soldier said [in the video], "Well, you shouldn't take your kids to battle." It was sent back for more reporting in an effort to incorporate a wider range of experts. Though we have acted with cold hearts far too many times, we have not forgotten our actions towards you. How to Make Sure Youre Not Accidentally Sharing Your Location, Security News This Week: Sensitive US Military Emails Exposed. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. 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]. I was trying to wash it off in my room. According to the U.S. Army investigation report released by the United States Central Command, the engagement started at 10:20 Iraqi local time and ended at 10:41. As the pilot positions the helicopter to attack the building, two unarmed men walk towards, and perhaps into, the building. [62] At a February 2013 pretrial hearing, Manning stated that Finkel "was quoting, I feel in verbatim, the audio communications of the aerial weapons team crew". 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. He kept saying, we were there, we know the truth, they're saying there was no weapons, there was. McCord: I've spoken with one of the medics who was there. 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. [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." It happened because my content was bad. We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. Please accept our apology, our sorrow, our care, and our dedication to change from the inside out. McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". Nearly every Iraqi household has a rifle or an AK. With such pain, friendship might be too much to ask. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. Personally, I believe the first attack on the group standing by the wall was appropriate, was warranted by the rules of engagement. I was up on a rooftop at that time. 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. 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. However, I don't feel that the attack on the [rescue] van was necessary. And I picked him up and started running with him over to the Bradley. I don't think that [the] big picture is whether or not [the Iraqis who were killed] had weapons. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. Smoked is basically like you're doing pushups a lot, you're doing sit-ups crunches and flutter kicks. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. McCord's courage and integrity has nothing to do with his US army training. 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. "[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. The flood of emotions came back. James W. McCord Jr., a security expert who led a band of burglars into the shambles of the Watergate scandal and was the first to expose the White House crimes and cover-ups that precipitated the . 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. [59] Reuters requested a copy of the full video under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on the same day. [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. 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. Ethan McCord, who was one of the first soldiers on the scene in the 2007 attack, told Wired.com that he saw several weapons at the scene, including a rocket propelled grenade launcher. Give us a picture of what happened that day. "When I did come up on the scene, there was an RPG as well as AK-47s there," he said. [18][19][25] Once the group is eliminated, the Apache pilots direct the ground troops to move up to the position of the attack to clear the area. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. [43] It concluded that an investigating officer would want to know how the armed men were identified as combatants from the earlier engagement; would question the nature of the collateral-damage estimate carried out by the crew before the missiles were launched; and would wish to determine whether a missile attack was a proportionate response to the threat. We did unto you what we would not want done to us. 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". 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. They request permission to fire a missile at the building, describing it as "abandoned" or "under construction". He opened his eyes when I was carrying him. In 2009, Stieber left the military as a conscientious objector and became a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. With Russia regularly knocking out Ukraines power grid, the country has turned to high-capacity batteries to keep it connected to the worldand itself. Reuters also stated that local police described the attack as "random American bombardment". [19], The events between the attack on the van and the attack on the building (approximately 30 minutes) were not captured on the leaked video footage. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. Colbert asked "So 'Collateral Murder' is to get political impact?" [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'. 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. 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. When a congressman tried to jail him for his actions that day he . McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. 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Ethan applied for mental health support following this incident and was denied by his commanding officer. I was also told that there would be repercussions if I was to go to mental health. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. ", The letter, which they hope to get to the family who lost their father and whose children were injured in the attack, states that they "are acknowledging our responsibility for bringing the battle to your neighborhood, and to your family. [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". 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