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. 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 . New details reveal that Beijing-backed hackers targeted the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adding to a string of attacks in the region. McCord: Yeah. 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. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. Was it reasonable for the Apache soldiers to think that maybe the people they attacked were part of that insurgent firefight? McCord: When it was first released I don't think it was done in the best manner that it could have been. I wasn't thinking about it as much. US Soldiers from Wikileaks Collateral Murder Video Apologize. An Apache maneuvered around a building to get a clear field of fire and shot all nine men, killing eight. We lost our country and our lives were destroyed. 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". We humbly ask you what we can do to begin to repair the damage we caused. You can hear the medic saying on the video, "There's nothing I can do here, she needs to be evac'd." She was crying. 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. After the non-combatants were clear Crazyhorse 1/8 engaged the targets. Solemnly and Sincerely, Josh Stieber, former specialist, U.S. Army Ethan McCord, former specialist, U.S. Army. I don't think that people really want to see this, though, because this is war. Home: Wichita, Kansas, AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE From Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military. It was nominated as a Documentary Short Subject for the 84th Academy Awards. They wrote that:[71][72][73][74]. [84], Finkel had reported the day in his book The Good Soldiers,[62] including conversations which closely matched the subsequently leaked video footage. 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. Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded. He condemned and reported the massacre as soon as it happened. Wired.com: Wikileaks presented the incident as though there was no engagement from insurgents. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone. McCord added, "I don't say that Wikileaks did a bad thing, because they didn't. Ethan McCord, a former US soldier, has shown great courage and integrity by exposing and condemning US war crimes in Iraq. 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. We were engaged in our own conflict roughly about three or four blocks away. (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? We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in 17 U.S.C 107. [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. But youyou talked about the fog of war. The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings. McCord: She had a stomach wound and she had glass in her eyes and in her hair. There is no bringing back all that was lost. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. 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. 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. As the killing goes on, you obviously would see the killing of men who are lying on the ground in an operation where ground troops are approaching and perfectly capable of taking those people captive, but meanwhile you're murdering before the troops arrive. Wired.com: At the time you arrived on the scene, you didn't know what had happened, is that right? [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. Reuters responded, "It is absolutely untrue that this story was spiked. The Washington Post has denied having any copy of the unedited video prior to WikiLeaks release of their edited version, and Finkel (who was on book leave from The Washington Post at the time) said that he has never made any statement about his sources for the story, except that it was "sourced from unclassified information and my presence in the area that day". [But] I was actually starting to get kind of better. And cracking jokes is a way of pushing that stuff down. Using short sentences, similar punctuation, or using the same words frequently as well as using Grammarly can boost your content as AI written. Wired's Kim Zetter reached McCord at his home in Kansas. Some of them [say] I don't care what anybody says they're not there. [67], WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents, and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. 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. "[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. WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers". Since then, McCord has been receiving threats to him and his family on a regular basis. Now, as far as rules of engagement, [Iraqis] are not supposed to pick up the wounded. I've lived with seeing the children that way since the incident happened. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. It shouldn't have surprised you what you saw. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [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. [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. [81] However, personally I don't feel that the attack on the van was warranted. 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. It was pretty much a shock when we got there to see what had happened, the carnage and everything else. In 2009, Stieber left the military as a conscientious objector and became a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. 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. Plus: Irans secret torture black sites, hacking a bank account with AI-generated voice, and Lance Bass unhinged encounter in Russia. This is why we called it Collateral Murder. [23] Among the group are two journalists working for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh. "[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. 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". Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. More and more Americans are taking responsibility for what was done in our name. I had blood all down the front of me from the children. [17] Julian Assange said "permission to engage was given before the word 'RPG' was ever used". The editors asked to see the remaining footage so Reuters could check whether it had been edited or manipulated. Gates said that the video provides the public with a view of warfare "as seen through a soda straw". He gave his view of the context of the killings: the Reuters guys walked into the hottest spot of a very hot morning. Just from looking into the van, and the amount of blood that was on the boy and the father, I immediately figured they were dead. It could be that since he and Amelia (Sigrid Thornton) have quit. I just kept telling him, "Don't die; don't die." Two men were identified by Crazyhorse 1/8 as carrying an RPG launcher and an AKM or AK-47. He was shot and killed. FAIR USE NOTICE: This page contains copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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. "[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. WikiLeaks also does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. When they arrived, they found a scene of fresh carnage the scattered remains of a group of men, believed to be armed, who had just been gunned down by Apache attack helicopters. [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. 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. 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. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter and son from the van, and when doing so, saw the faces of his own children back home. [56], The Washington Post reported it was unclear whether the journalists were killed by U.S. fire or by shooting from the targeted Iraqis. Smith describes this reaction as inhuman. [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". It didn't seem real, in the sense that it didn't look like human beings. [38] The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. 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. 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." 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. 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. [18][25][31] The Apache crew requested permission to engage, stating it "looks like [the men] possibly, picking up bodies and weapons" from the scene,[33] and repeated their request to shoot,[7][34][35][36][37] before they received permission to begin firing on the van and its occupants. [19], The team observed several individuals from this group, some possibly wounded, run into a large multistory building. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group. [19], Fox News said that of the attack "WikiLeaks appears to have done selective editing that tells only half the story. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24a.m. In the first strike, the crews of two Apaches directed 30mm cannon fire at a group of ten Iraqi men, including some armed,[17][18][19] standing less than 100 meters away from U.S. ground troops at a location where insurgents earlier that day had attacked an American Humvee with small arms fire. "[32], The Guardian stated "It is unclear if some of the men are armed but Noor-Eldeen can be seen with a camera". The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury. Towards the end of the show, the star actor became an active member of the Screen Actors Guild and after he left "Adam-12." There were some people taking pot shots, sniper shots, at us on the rooftop. I've had nightmares. 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In fact, that's one of the reasons I went to the van immediately, because I could hear her crying. "The helicopters were approximately a mile and a half away and they were zooming in on these guys . Wired.com: Do you support Wikileaks in releasing this video? 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. Captain James Hall stated they couldn't drive in Bradleys in fear of running over bodies. As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand. "I grabbed him and ran to the Bradley myself". 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. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" You Cant Trust App Developers Privacy Claims on Google Play, Mozilla researchers found that apps often provide inaccurate data use disclosures, giving people a false sense of security., Batteries Are Ukraines Secret Weapon Against Russia. 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". [18] Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with 30 mm rounds once they became visible again. It claimed reporters' "furtive attempts to photograph the Coalition Ground Forces made them appear as hostile combatants". 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. Wired.com: The first thing you saw was the little girl in the van. [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. This is the problem that we're speaking out on as far as the rules of engagement. There had been a lot of RPG, grenade fire and so on, and they were doing what journalists do. 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". However, I don't feel that the attack on the [rescue] van was necessary. 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. As the gunner fires the first missile, another man is seen walking along the street in front of the building. [19], As the tape resumes, two men, one holding an AK-47, are seen walking. 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. We heard the gunships open up. 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. 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. You don't just take somebody's life and then go on about your business for the rest of the day. That's a violation of the laws of war and of course what the mainstream media have omitted from their stories is this context. [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. Lying dead on a street were inanimate objects that turned out to be. [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. Fox News reported in 2010 that the rules of engagement in Iraq had not been changed since the incident occurred. 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. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded. "[32][77] He said that WikiLeaks "does not point out that at least one man was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle. So I just sucked it up and tried to move on with everything. 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. McCord is the father of three children. 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. [18] Al Jazeera stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. She continued, "the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are inflicting huge psychological damage on combatants". [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. Wired.com: Was anyone moving when you got there other than the two children? Our hearts are open to hearing how we can take any steps to support you through the pain that we have caused. 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[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. But you guys did have a firefight a couple of blocks away. This is urban combat and we're taking the war to children and women and innocents. Vehicle; "When I saw those kids, all I could picture was my kids back home". 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. We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. I was also told that there would be repercussions if I was to go to mental health. 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