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...Ben Karlin (BK): I had a deal to do a television show with NBC some years ago and I pitched a show about a guy, where every week was a different failed relationship in his life...And they didn’t like it. But I liked it and [Things I’ve Learned from Women Who’ve Dumped Me] was the title of the show that I pitched...
...Ben, who asked that only his first name be used for security reasons, also disputed parts of the al-Saadi's account. He believes the Australian government handled the matter poorly at the time and failed to keep soldiers informed about the case and the al-Saadi family's move to Australia. "It was always my worst fear. I knew this thing was never going to go away," says the private, who, a month earlier, had been in a vehicle that was attacked by a suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives...
...Ben, who was only 20 at the time, confirms he shot into the al-Saadi's vehicle, but denies it had come to a stop. "We saw this vehicle turn the corner with its lights on and it was traveling reasonably fast. We started holding up our hands making the Arabic signal for stop and calling out the word for stop," he says. "The vehicle came closer and closer until it was about 30m away, when one soldier fired two warning shots above the vehicle. Technically no warning shots should have been fired as we had been told...
...Immediately after the shooting, Ben says he and three other soldiers moved to secure the area but saw angry Iraqis shouting "Why, why?" as they ran out of their houses. "We could hear children in the vehicle," he says. "It looked like a scene out of the movie Pulp Fiction. People covered in blood." The soldiers found themselves surrounded by Iraqis and one of the snipers said over the radio he had seen an Iraqi going to get a weapon. This prompted the Australians, in accordance with their orders, to withdraw - making it impossible for them to stay and give...
...After the shooting, the soldiers were segregated to write their accounts of the incident. "We never heard either way what the results of the investigation were," says Ben. Another soldier in the unit, who asked not to be named, confirmed most of Ben's story and says Australian soldiers later traveled to the Sadr City hospital where the woman had been taken and arranged her transfer to a U.S. military hospital...