- By Robert Dreyfuss Iraq had its Haditha. Now, Afghanistan has its Panjwai. Burning babies—yes, it has come to this. Following routine bombings of wedding parties, hundreds killed in unchecked “night raids” by US Special Forces, the murders by the scandalous “kill team” in 2010, and, this year, the digitally recorded urination onto dead Afghans […]
U.S. court martial hears how Marine killed Iraqis
January 14, 2012 By
By Joyce Thorne CAMP PENDLETON, California: A U.S. soldier told Wednesday how his commander killed five Iraqi civilians and then asked him to lie about it, at a trial stemming from one of the Iraq war’s most controversial episodes. Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz testified at the court martial of Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, his squad […]
U.S. war crimes in Iraq: Slitting throats in Haditha
December 17, 2011 By
“In their own words… Marines came to view 20 dead civilians as not ‘remarkable,’ but as routine.” “Troops… grew increasingly twitchy, killing more and more civilians in accidental encounters. Others became so desensitized and inured to the killing that they fired on Iraqi civilians deliberately while their fellow soldiers snapped pictures, and were court-martialed. The […]
