Collateral Murder Video
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b style="">July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrikes</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">were a series of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-to-ground" class="mw-redirect" title="Air-to-ground" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">air-to-ground</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">attacks conducted by a team of two</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">U.S.</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_AH-64_Apache" title="Boeing AH-64 Apache" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">AH-64 Apache</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">helicopters in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Amin_al-Thaniyah" title="Al-Amin al-Thaniyah" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Al-Amin al-Thaniyah</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Baghdad" title="New Baghdad" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">New Baghdad</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">during the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_insurgency(Iraq_War)" class="mw-redirect" title="Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Iraqi insurgency</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which followed the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Iraq War</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. On April 5, 2010, the attacks received worldwide coverage and controversy following the release of 39 minutes of gunsight footage by the Internet</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblowing" class="mw-redirect" title="Whistleblowing" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">whistleblower</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">website</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks" title="WikiLeaks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">WikiLeaks</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. The footage was portrayed as</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information" title="Classified information" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">classified</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,</span><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters6Apr2010_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Reuters6Apr2010-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">but its confessed leaker, U.S. Army soldier</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning" title="Chelsea Manning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Chelsea Manning</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, testified in 2013 that the video was not classified.</span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[8]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The video, which WikiLeaks titled</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><i style=""><b>Collateral Murder</b></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, showed that the crew fired on a group of men and laughed at some of the casualties, some of whom were civilians and reporters. An anonymous U.S. military official confirmed the authenticity of the footage,</span><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters:leaked_video_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Reuters:leaked_video-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which provoked global discussion on the legality and morality of the attacks.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the first strike, the crews of two Apaches directed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M230_Chain_Gun" class="mw-redirect" title="M230 Chain Gun" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">30 mm cannon</a> fire at a group of ten Iraqi men, including some armed men, standing where insurgents earlier that day had shot at an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humvee" title="Humvee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Humvee</a> with small arms fire. Among the group were two Iraqi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_correspondent" title="War correspondent" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">war correspondents</a> working for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Chmagh" title="Saeed Chmagh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saeed Chmagh</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namir_Noor-Eldeen" title="Namir Noor-Eldeen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Namir Noor-Eldeen</a>. Seven men (including Noor-Eldeen) were killed during this first strike; Saeed Chmagh, who was injured, later died in a hospital.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The second strike, also using 30 mm 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. However, in the long version of the video this van was targeted prior to the first engagement by one Apache (Crazyhorse 1/8) as it traveled south toward the Reuters employees who were, simultaneously, targeted by the other Apache (Crazyhorse 1/9) as they walked north on the same road toward the van. Minutes after the first engagement ended the van returned traveling in an opposite direction (north) once again on this same road. 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. Both of these men, Chmagh and Tomal, were killed in the second strike, and two of Tomal's children were badly wounded.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a third strike, Apache pilots watched people, including some armed men, run into a building and engaged that building with several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire" title="AGM-114 Hellfire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AGM-114 Hellfire</a> missiles.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 id="mw-toc-heading" style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border: 0px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2><span class="toctogglespan" style=""><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer;" /></span></div><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Context" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Context</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Incidents" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Incidents</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Attack_on_personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Attack on personnel</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Attack_on_a_van" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Attack on a van</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Attack_on_a_building" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Attack on a building</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Commentary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Commentary</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#2007%E2%80%932009_coverage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2007–2009 coverage</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Coverage_from_2010" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Coverage from 2010</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Leaked_video_footage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Leaked video footage</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#WikiLeaks'rationale_for_their_title_of_the_footage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">WikiLeaks' rationale for their title of the footage</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Reactions_to_the_video_footage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Reactions to the video footage</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Subsequent_mainstream_media_coverage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Subsequent mainstream media coverage</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Interviews_with_Ethan_McCord" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Interviews with Ethan McCord</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Arrest,convictions_and_sentencing_of_Manning" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Arrest, convictions and sentencing of Manning</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Legality_of_the_attacks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Legality of the attacks</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Military_legal_review" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Military legal review</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Incident_according_to_the_report" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Incident according to the report</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none;"><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Attack_on_personnel_and_a_van_per_U.S.Army_report_account" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1.1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Attack on personnel and a van per U.S. Army report account</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Attack_on_building_per_U.S.Army_report_account" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1.1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Attack on building per U.S. Army report account</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Julian_Assange's_comments_regarding_U.S.Army_report" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6.1.1.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Julian Assange's comments regarding U.S. Army report</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Awards" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Awards</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#Media_representations" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Media representations</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#See_also" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">See also</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">10</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">11</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Context">Context</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Context" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_in_Iraq" title="2007 in Iraq" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2007 in Iraq</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_troop_surge_of_2007" title="Iraq War troop surge of 2007" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Iraq War troop surge of 2007</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coalition_military_operations_of_the_Iraq_War#2007" title="List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">List of coalition military operations of the Iraq War § 2007</a></font></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Tom Raju, a reporter at CNN, "the soldiers of Bravo Company, 2–16 Infantry had been under fire all morning from rocket-propelled grenades and small arms on the first day of Operation Ilaaj in Baghdad".<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera" title="Al Jazeera" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Jazeera</a> stated that the Army had received "reports of small arms fire", but were unable to positively identify the gunmen. Apache helicopters were called in by a soldier in the Humvee (Hotel 2–6) under attack from the same position used by Namir Noor-Eldeen to photograph the vehicle.<sup id="cite_ref-collateral-aljazeera_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-collateral-aljazeera-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> According to a military review, soldiers in that company "had been under sporadic small arms and rocket propelled grenade fire since" the operation—described as "clearing their sector and looking for weapons caches"—began.<sup id="cite_ref-politifact.com_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-politifact.com-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Air Weapons Team (AWT) of two Apache AH-64s from the 1st Cavalry Division had been requested by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Infantry_Regiment(United_States)" title="16th Infantry Regiment (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment</a> (2–16), 4th Brigade Combat Team, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Infantry_Division(United_States)" title="1st Infantry Division (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1st Infantry Division</a> under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, before July 12 to support Operation Ilaaj. Tasked to conduct escort, armed reconnaissance patrols, and counter-IED and counter-mortar operations, the two helicopters left <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Taji" title="Camp Taji" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Camp Taji</a> at 9:24 a.m. They arrived on station in New Baghdad at 9:53 a.m., where sporadic attacks on coalition forces continued.<sup id="cite_ref-supporting-documents_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-supporting-documents-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Incidents">Incidents</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; 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This is 13 minutes of onboard footage from one of the two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-64_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="AH-64 Apache" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AH-64 Apache</a> helicopters involved in the incident released by WikiLeaks. This video is from the editorialized version of <i>Collateral Murder</i>, but has had the editorial removed. (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/July_12,2007_Baghdad_airstrike_transcript" class="extiw" title="wikisource:July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike transcript" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Full audio transcript</a>) <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_2007-07-12_airstrike_videos" class="extiw" title="commons:Baghdad 2007-07-12 airstrike videos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Other video clips</a> including the full 39-minute footage and clips corresponding to the Army report exhibits were also made available by WikiLeaks.</font></div></div></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Attack_on_personnel">Attack on personnel</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Attack on personnel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the video on the morning of July 12, 2007, the crews of two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States Army</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-64_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="AH-64 Apache" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AH-64 Apache</a> helicopters observe a gathering of men near a section of Baghdad in the path of advancing U.S. ground troops, some armed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKM" title="AKM" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">AKMs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade" title="Rocket-propelled grenade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">RPGs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-legal-review_14-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-legal-review-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> The crew estimates the group is twenty men.<sup id="cite_ref-transcript_15-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-transcript-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> Among the group are two journalists working for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namir_Noor-Eldeen" title="Namir Noor-Eldeen" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Namir Noor-Eldeen</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Chmagh" title="Saeed Chmagh" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saeed Chmagh</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cohen-seattle_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-seattle-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sengupta_18-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-sengupta-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcelroy_19-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcelroy-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup> (While the two are carrying media cards, a military officer claimed they were not wearing distinctive clothing identifying themselves as such.)<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A crew member requests authorization to engage after seeing five or six of the men moving in the direction of U.S. soldiers.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> A long shadow cast on the ground by a telephoto lens on Noor-Eldeen's camera is misidentified by the pilot as an additional RPG aimed at him and a U.S. Army Humvee directly below his aircraft. One second later he screams, "He's got an RPG!" 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. The men become obscured behind a building as the Apache moves around the group.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup> Both helicopters strafe a group of ten men with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M230_chain_gun" title="M230 chain gun" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">30 mm rounds</a> once they became visible again.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters:leaked_video_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Reuters:leaked_video-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cnndeaths_21-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cnndeaths-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seven men were killed, including Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh, with three others being wounded.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-legal-review_14-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-legal-review-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> 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.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Attack_on_a_van">Attack on a van</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the ground troops advanced, a wounded Chmagh was seen crawling and attempting to stand.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Goodman_22-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Goodman-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> As the U.S. soldiers moved towards the site of the attack, a van stopped near Chmagh. The van had no visible markings to suggest it was an ambulance or a protected vehicle.<sup id="cite_ref-fishel_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-fishel-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup> The Apache crew alerted the ground troops of the van and requested permission to engage the vehicle before the ground troops arrived. The Apache crew saw unarmed<sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> men exit the vehicle and move to Chmagh.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Goodman_22-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Goodman-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> The Apache crew requested permission to engage, stating it "looks like [the men] possibly, picking up bodies and weapons" from the scene,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup> and repeated their request to shoot,<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters6Apr2010_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Reuters6Apr2010-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup> before they received permission to begin firing on the van and its occupants.<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Goodman_22-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Goodman-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> Chmagh was killed<sup id="cite_ref-cohen-cnn_10-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-cohen-cnn-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Goodman_22-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Goodman-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup> along with three other men, while two children, not known to be in the van to the U.S. forces, were injured.<sup id="cite_ref-family-aljazeera_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-family-aljazeera-29" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup> The children, a girl and boy, suffered injuries. The girl suffered from a stomach wound and glass in her eyes, and the boy a head injury.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-30" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-31" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup> Just as the van was destroyed, U.S. ground troops made their final turn and arrived on the road with the van. The Apache crew then alerted the ground troops that they believed that they could see an injured child moving around inside the destroyed van. On the video, it is then seen that Army soldiers establish a perimeter around the site and extract the children from the burning van.</font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Attack_on_a_building">Attack on a building</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ground troops that secured the site of the first two strikes then receive small arms fire from nearby buildings.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Coverage_from_2010">Coverage from 2010</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Leaked_video_footage">Leaked video footage</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Early in 2010, the Internet whistleblower site WikiLeaks made a public request for assistance in decrypting a video it described as "US bomb strikes on civilians", specifically requesting access to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer" title="Supercomputer" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">supercomputer</a> time</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-smh_54-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-smh-54" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The site stated on its </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> account on January 8, 2010, that it had a copy of gunsight footage of the incidents.</span><sup id="cite_ref-WikiLeaks-Twitter-Announcement_55-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-WikiLeaks-Twitter-Announcement-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">The footage was released during an April 5 press conference at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Press_Club(United_States)" title="National Press Club (United States)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">National Press Club</a>, and subsequently under a designated website titled <i style="">Collateral Murder</i>.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> WikiLeaks stated that the footage shows the "murder of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists".</span><sup id="cite_ref-airstrike-aljazeera_56-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-airstrike-aljazeera-56" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-airstrike-bbc_57-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-airstrike-bbc-57" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WikiLeaks identified the leak's source as "a number of military whistleblowers".</span><sup id="cite_ref-Collateral_Murder_38-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Collateral_Murder-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Speaking to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Reuters</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on condition of anonymity, a U.S. Defense official confirmed the authenticity of the leaked audio and video.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters:leaked_video_9-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Reuters:leaked_video-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The military reported that it could not find its copy of the video.</span><sup id="cite_ref-militarycopy-aljazeera_58-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-militarycopy-aljazeera-58" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WikiLeaks released a 39-minute version, which shows all three incidents,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a 17-minute version, which shows only the first two incidents. Highlighted in the 17-minute version of the video are Noor-Eldeen with a camera and Chmagh talking on his mobile phone.</span><sup id="cite_ref-mcgreal_17-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-mcgreal-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 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.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Collateral_Murder_38-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-Collateral_Murder-38" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The longer video shows the third attack, in which Hellfire missiles were fired into a building.</span><sup id="cite_ref-NewYorker-Useofforce_33-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-NewYorker-Useofforce-33" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="WikiLeaks.27_rationale_for_their_title_of_the_footage" /><span class="mw-headline" id="WikiLeaks'rationale_for_their_title_of_the_footage">WikiLeaks' rationale for their title of the footage</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English" title="Al Jazeera English" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Al Jazeera English</a> interview on April 19, 2010, WikiLeaks' Julian Assange explained why WikiLeaks titled the video <i>Collateral Murder</i>:</font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And you can see that they also deliberately target Saaed, a wounded man there on the ground, despite their earlier belief that they didn't have the rules of engagement—that the rules of engagement did not permit them to kill Saeed when he was wounded. When he is rescued, suddenly that belief changed. 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. This is why we called it <i>Collateral Murder</i>. 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. But this particular event—this is clearly murder.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regarding the title, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Harnden" title="Toby Harnden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Toby Harnden</a> in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> wrote: "Oddly enough, it was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stephen Colbert</a>, ostensibly a comedian, who skewered him":</font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The army described this as a group that gave resistance at the time, that doesn't seem to be happening. But there are armed men in the group, they did find a rocket propelled grenade among the group, the Reuters photographers who were regrettably killed, were not identified ... You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called 'collateral murder'. That's not leaking, that's a pure editorial.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to Harnden "Assange admitted that he was seeking to manipulate and create 'maximum political impact'."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[63]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[64]</a></sup> Dan Kennedy wrote in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Guardian</a></i>, "Even the comedian Stephen Colbert, in an interview with Assange, dropped his rightwing-blowhard persona momentarily to make a serious point, calling the edited version '<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_manipulation" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotional manipulation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">emotional manipulation</a>'".<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Keller" title="Bill Keller" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bill Keller</a> of <i>The New York Times</i> 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 <i>Collateral Murder</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-totalfatalities_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-totalfatalities-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> reported 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."<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Reactions_to_the_video_footage">Reactions to the video footage</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=July_12,2007,Baghdad_airstrike&action=edit§ion=11" title="Edit section: Reactions to the video footage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Captain Jack Hanzlik, a spokesman for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Central_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Central Command" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. Central Command</a> stated that the airstrike video "gives you a limited perspective, [it] only tells you a portion of the activity that was happening that day. Just from watching that video, people cannot understand the complex battles that occurred. You are seeing only a very narrow picture of the events.". </font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div>