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Pentagon planners had little chance to reflect on their success before turning to the next challenge. From the park benches in the Pentagon courtyard to the secure conference rooms, military officials are already talking through their preparations for an outbreak of insurgent violence in reaction to the news. Attacks in...
What is impossible to know is whether the same lengthy experience that made the Marines more attuned to the challenges of fighting in Iraq also made them more prone to snap if provoked. As TIME reported in March, a 13-man Kilo unit was on patrol in a residential part...
Pentagon officials hinted to reporters that they were braced for a rash of other reports of hostile fire by American units on Iraqi civilians. Marine officials tell TIME that they receive on average one complaint a day from Iraqis about U.S. missions that have gone awry. Most don't check...
Miguel also called Martin from Iraq. But the stories from that country were of close calls and near Solomonic decisions. On one occasion, Miguel had to use his rifle to pick off an insurgent who had a young boy standing next to him. He killed the rebel without hurting the...
At that point, TIME's Aparisim Ghosh joined the efforts in Baghdad, asking the U.S. military for more information even as the preliminary investigation was continuing. Lacking any official U.S. response to the allegations, TIME chose not to publish an article on the episode in Haditha based solely on the...