#haditha

CW: Real Dead Bodies. Dead Children.

The families wanted these to be publicized because the murderers had not had any real consequences.

The article has a whole screen warning before pictures start if you want to read the reporting, but not witness the war crimes. I do mean war crimes. Yes, my country did this and I'm furious about it.

It's behind a paywall and sorry about that, but the basic rundown is that the New Yorker published never-seen photos last week of the 2005 Haditha massacre, where U.S marines executed twenty-four Iraqi civilians, ranging from 3-years-old to the elderly in "revenge" of an I.E.D that went off and killed a marine. They then lied and said the dead were also victims of the bomb, but media reports disputed that fact.

(Warning that there are photos of the dead in that link)

Scott Pelley Accepting the 2007 Peabody Award for “60 Minutes: The Killings in Haditha”

In November 2005, a squad of U.S. Marines killed 24 civilians, among them women, children and elderly townspeople. The worst single killing of civilians by American troops since Vietnam, it was clearly a massacre to some observers, to others a regrettable but defensible stake. 60 Minutes’ report is the result of an intense, year-long investigation that entailed scrutinizing visual evidence and documents and interviewing family members, military and civilian officials, journalists and Iraqi eyewitnesses.

Iraqi forces storm Mosul neighborhoods, killing 173 ISIS militants

Displaced Iraqis cross the Tigris River, as Iraqi forces battle with ISIS militants, in western Mosul, Iraq May 12, 2017.

:: Iraqi forces have stormed four neighborhoods in the city of Mosul on Monday, killing about 173 ISIS militants including one high-rank leader.

Iraq’s anti-terrorism units on Monday have stormed Al-Oraibi and Al-Rifa’i neighborhoods where heavy clashes are still taking…