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Martin Terrazas Jr. and his younger brother Miguel used to work the counters together at Ben's Tacos, the combination eatery and convenience store owned by their family on Delta Street in El Paso, Texas. For $3, you get half a dozen tacos; a dollar gets you a comb or...
It was Miguel's death, the result of an improvised explosive device set by insurgents, that appears to have led to the killings now under investigation. Miguel was Martin's best friend, but Miguel had other brothers, the Marines of Kilo Company. "They were like another family to him," says...
Miguel spoke to his brother just days before he died. Martin says Miguel was troubled by something but couldn't go into it over the phone. On Nov. 19, Martin felt ill and threw up; then he received a phone call to head to his grandfather's house. "I knew...
If the Marines are indeed guilty of an atrocity, they had the ill 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...
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...