Frank Wuterich knew before he finished boot camp that he didn’t want to be a Marine for life, but he may wind up one anyway. Wuterich is the central suspect in the Iraq war’s most notorious massacre, ...
If the allegations of the slaughter of innocent Iraqi men, women and children are proven to be true, the Marines involved should be punished accordingly [June 12]. That American troops are stretched ...
November 19th 2005, Haditha, Iraq. Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal ...
This story is a companion piece to Season 3 of the investigative podcast In the Dark. On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was travelling in four Humvees down a road in the town of ...
Haditha is a city on the Euphrates River northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Eight US Marines faced charges in the deaths, but only one was convicted of a crime, that of negligent dereliction of duty.
(Reuters) - The U.S. military charged four Marines on Thursday with murder and four others on related charges in the November 2005 deaths of 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Here are the Marines ...
CAMP PENDLETON — Marine Corps officials Thursday charged eight Marines, including Capt. Lucas McConnell of Napa, in connection with the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha in November ...
WASHINGTON — Three Marines have been relieved of their commands in connection with problems during their deployment to Iraq, including their battalion's actions during a firefight that left 15 Iraqi ...
We hope day by day that the facts will become plain as to what occurred at Haditha in November. But this isn’t happening. What we have is a story the components of which are pieces perpetually on the ...
“Battle for Haditha” is yet another Iraq War picture based on a real incident that looks at atrocities committed by terrorists/insurgents and American troops. But what sets it apart from Brian DePalma ...