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...loss not just for four families. It was a turning point in an already foundering war. An ecstatic mob in the center of a major Iraqi town had torn Americans limb from limb in front of rolling cameras. A series of catastrophic recriminations followed. Muqtada al-Sadr, emboldened by the attack, called for the first Shi'ite uprising against the occupation. U.S. Marines retook Fallujah but flattened parts of the city in the process and set the stage for future cycles of invasion and uprising that have scarred the city--and the country--ever since...
...question at the heart of Girouard's case is whether he ordered three Iraqi men killed during a raid last May in the Thar Thar Canal. During the raid, soldiers took four men captive. Shortly before the soldiers were supposed to pull out, three of the detainees were allegedly shot by two soldiers in Girouard's squad, Corey R. Clagett and William B. Hunsaker. One of the three Iraqis who did not die right away was allegedly shot point-blank by another soldier, Juston R. Graber, in what's been described as a mercy killing. Initially, squad members claimed that...
...court-martial, however, is unlikely to answer another question: whether the men were killed because superior officers had, in essence, suggested that no military-age Iraqi men should be left alive in the raid of what was believed to be an insurgent stronghold. The defense has been complicated by the fact that the commanding officer, 3rd Brigade Commander Col. Michael Steele, will not testify at the trial. Col. Steele gained recognition for heroism in Somalia in 1993, actions later depicted in the book and movie Black Hawk Down...
...Iraqis still live in fear. The pervasive violence that has wracked Baghdad since the summer of 2003 has killed or injured tens of thousands, and has made random, unpredictable death a fact of Iraqi life. I've lost count of the number of times Iraqis have told me, with biting sarcasm, that it's a little hard to appreciate the benefits of the new education system when schools and schoolbuses are regularly being bombed. They point out, too, that democracy has brought to power leaders who are sectarian partisans or kleptocrats, often both. Other new freedoms are appreciated...
...They worry, too, that their political leadership remains deeply venal and inept. Corruption has become so endemic, the families of those killed in sectarian violence are sometimes forced to bribe officials at the Baghdad morgue to release the body quickly. An Iraqi may point to a government building now, but it is usually with a finger of accusation...