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They were, as always, mostly young. According to DoD statistics, three-quarters of 2,888 troops who died in Iraq through December 2 this year were 30 years old or younger. Roughly half of them were not yet 26. Nine in ten were of ranks lower than officer. About two...
My investigation into the Haditha tragedy started with a simple Google search. I checked back to see what the U.S. Marines said had happened on Nov.19th. In a three-paragraph communiqu?, the Marines claimed that a roadside bomb on a convoy of Humvees had killed one Marine, wounded two others...
This didn't make sense. In the video, the corpses I had seen, unzipped from the U.S.-issue body bags, were wearing pajamas. Iraqis are conservative; they don't wear their nightgowns and pajamas outdoors. The corpses also had bullet wounds, not the kind of gaping tears caused by roadside...
It took TIME six weeks to piece together our investigation - the clincher was an interview with a girl who survived a killing spree by Marines inside her home - and then we turned our evidence over to the U.S. military command in Baghdad. The military launched a full inquiry, which lasted...
During the months after the Haditha story broke, I became the target of bloggers, self-proclaimed patriots, for supposedly dragging the fine reputation of the Marines through the mud. Nothing about this story made me feel good save for one thing: until TIME's investigation, one of the Marines - the...