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The Haditha case began after an insurgent bomb killed a Marine in Haditha, 60 miles north of Baghdad, on Nov. 19, 2005. In the hours after his death, a squad of Marines killed 24 Iraqis, including some who local civilians claim were innocents simply in the wrong place at the...
Lt. Gen. Richard Natonski, who will brief the House and Senate armed services committees behind closed doors, has experience investigating alleged Marine wrongdoing in Iraq. Critics claimed a videotape of a Marine shooting a prone Iraqi inside a mosque in 2005 was an example of a war crime, but Natonski...
Natonski, Marines say, will echo what the commanders overseeing Iraq have told others: That Nov. 19 was a typically frantic day. According to a Pentagon source, the on-scene officers were dealing with "numerous" other significant events, including firefights and bombings. A bombing that killed 15 "would be one of...
Three-hundred-and-seventy years ago, Harvard opened up its first buildings in an area surrounded by wood yards and cows. Today, the University is one of the largest landowners in the Square—a disturbing fact to some of its business neighbors. An entire row of Mass. Ave...
Whatever the truth behind Mahmoud's death, it was not an isolated incident but came amid outbreaks of violence in several mixed Sunni-Shi'ite areas of Beirut this week that have left dozens injured and inflamed sectarian tensions. Hundreds of Lebanese troops have deployed in Beirut's trouble spots...