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...Marines spokesman Captain Jeffrey Pool issues the military's first official report on the incident, noting that "a U.S. Marine and 15 Iraqi civilians were killed yesterday from the blast of a roadside bomb." The same day, Haditha journalism student Taher Thabet videotapes the scene at the homes where the killings had occurred and at the local morgue...
...else has not. Marines continue to patrol the neighborhoods, and there are convoys of humvees rolling down Hay al-Sinnai Road practically every day. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see a hard copy or pdf.] The Incident .. At 7:15 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2005, a roadside bomb exploded in Haditha, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. That night, U.S. Marines took the bodies of 24 Iraqis to a local hospital. What happened that day: Bomb explodes under last humvee in convoy. Marines originally reported they immediately came under fire from surrounding buildings...
...program is long overdue. It should have been implemented after the initial truck-bomb attack on the World Trade Center. Had we been connecting the dots in that way all along, 9/11 might never have happened...
...fortune to have committed their crime in the worst possible place: outside the front door of a budding Iraqi journalist and human-rights activist. Taher Thabet, 43, was at home in Haditha on the morning of Nov. 19 when around 7:15 he heard the detonation of the roadside bomb that struck a Marine humvee, killing the driver, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, 20. The blast shattered Thabet's windows. He ran outside in time to see Marines from three other humvees springing from their vehicles and heading for four homes on either side of the road. "They went into...
McGirk contacted Marine headquarters in Ramadi to inquire about the incident. The Marines sent back an e-mail saying there were 15 civilian deaths in Haditha on Nov. 19 but that the victims were killed by the roadside bomb and by a firefight that erupted when insurgents fired on the Marines. But the videotape showed that many of the dead were pajama-clad women and children. The bodies had wounds from bullets, not shrapnel, and the scene suggested that they had been murdered inside their homes...