Probing a bloodbath

Article Abstract:

The US military is investigating Marines belonging to the Kilo Company stationed in the Iraqi town of Haditha, who are accused by eye-witnesses of killing 24 Iraqis, including women and children, on the morning of November 19, 2005. Haditha underscores an uncomfortable truth of the Iraq war, where young men join the Marines to be brave knights in noble combat, and are taught how to fire their weapons and kill the enemy, but do not spend much time learning how to be tolerant of people who speak a different language and practice a different religion.

Military offenses, Marines, Civilian casualties

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Worse than you think

Article Abstract:

The Iraqis kidnapping in broad light in central Baghdad, an issue to which eyewitnesses only blink in disbelief is reported. As Americans debate Vietnam, the U.S death toll tops 1,000 in Iraq and the insurgents are still getting stronger and outside the Ibn Haitham hospital, in broad daylight, a gang armed with AK-47s and pump action shotguns raided a small house used by three Italian aid groups and rode off with four hostages.

Insurgency, United States foreign relations

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'I Was Sure I Was Dead'

Article Abstract:

A reporter relates his experiences under fire in Iraq.

Personal narratives, Wars, War, Iraq War, 2003-

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