More information has come to light about the U.S. massacre in the Iraqi town of Haditha in 2005. The Washington Post has obtained an internal military report and photographs that show U.S. marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a roadside bombing in Haditha. The squad’s leader, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, shot the men one by one after marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the explosion. Another marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground. The shootings were the first in a series of violent reactions by marines on the morning of November 19, 2005. By the end of the day, 24 civilians had died — many of them women and children.
More Details Emerge over Haditha Massacre
HeadlineJan 08, 2007