Death in Haditha

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Eyewitness Accounts in Report Indicate Marines Gunned Down Unarmed Iraqis in the Aftermath of a Roadside Bombing in 2005

Marines' Photos Provide Graphic Evidence in Haditha Probe

Josh White, Washington Post Staff Writer

Capturing images of war on their digital cameras, as many troops in Iraq have done, Marines took dozens of gruesome photographs of the 24 civilians who were killed in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005. The images -- which investigators tracked down on several laptop computers and digital media drives, some in the United States -- provide visual evidence of a series of shootings outside a taxi and inside three homes that military criminal investigators have alleged were murders. Much like the photographs that emerged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse cases, the Haditha images have provided investigators powerful and visceral evidence of what happened. But unlike the detainee photographs, which were turned over to officials who then investigated the case, the Haditha images were discovered months after the shootings as more than 60 Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents scoured the globe for them...

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US marines killed Iraqis one by one in Haditha

An investigative report compiled by the US military reportedly indicates that US marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq. Citing the document obtained by The Washington Post, the account said that Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one after marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the explosion, which killed one marine and injured two others. Another marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground, the paper said, citing the military report...

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