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January 2006: TIME's Tim McGirk obtains a copy of Thabet's videotape from the Hammurabi human-rights group...
...Marines spokesman Captain Jeffrey Pool issues the military's first official report on the incident, noting that "a U.S. Marine and 15 Iraqi civilians were killed yesterday from the blast of a roadside bomb." The same day, Haditha journalism student Taher Thabet videotapes the scene at the homes where the killings had occurred and at the local morgue...
...weeks ago, a Marine on foot patrol came up to Thabet's home, stopped and smiled at Thabet's two little daughters who were playing in the yard. He gave them some candy. Peering into the house, he saw Thabet's sister making fresh Iraqi bread in the oven. ?Can I have some?? he asked. Thabet says the rules of Arab hospitality obliged him to invite the soldier into the yard and share his bread. As they ate, the two men made small talk - the Marine spoke some broken Arabic, and Thabet has a little English. When Thabet gave...
...patrol al-Subhani; on Hay al-Sinnani, there are convoys of Humvees practically every other day. There are occasional foot patrols. The week after the massacre, the Marines were edgy and hostile. ?They would get on top of the roofs of our houses and point their guns around,? says Thabet. ?They would constantly tell us, 'We know some terrorists have passed this way; where did they go?'? Gradually, the patrols returned to normal...
...done by Terazzas's company on that November morning cannot be undone. ?I was an admirer of America,? says Khaliq, the morgue doctor. ?When those bodies were brought here, it turned upside down my image of that country and its people.? Of the Marine with whom he shared bread, Thabet says: ?He spoke to me politely, and I respect him for that.? But reciprocating the friendly gestures would be asking too much. ?As long as they come as bearing guns, we will be reminded of what their colleagues did to our friends and family,? says Thabet. ?We will not forgive...