The New Yorker Publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq Massacre Photos

The New Yorker publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq massacre photos Marines ‘didn’t want the world to see’

The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range.

A War Crime America Tried to Forget: Haditha Massacre with Marine Lawyer Haytham Faraj

The Iraq War remains one of the clearest examples of how imperialism has devastated West Asia. While the overthrow of Saddam Hussein was championed as a move toward freedom, it instead led to a bloody vacuum of power, directly contributing to the rise of ISIS and the deaths of over a million people. While American soldiers also suffered trauma, injury, and death, it was the people of Iraq who bore the brunt of the war’s devastation. Meanwhile, t…

The New Yorker Publishes 2005 Haditha, Iraq Massacre Photos

After nearly two decades of obstruction by the U.S. military, The New Yorker has obtained and published 10 photos of the aftermath of the 2005 Haditha massacre, when U.S. marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians in revenge for an IED bombing that killed a service member. The graphic images show dead Iraqi men, women and children, many of them shot in the head at close range. The victims ranged in age from 3 to 76. Release of the photos came only after p

‘This Is What the US Military Was Doing in Iraq’: Photos of 2005 Haditha Massacre Finally Published

"I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny," said one survivor who was just 8 years old during the attack by U.S. Marines.

New Yorker: The Haditha Massacre Photos That the US Marine Corps Didn’t Want the World to See

By Madeleine Baran August 27, 2024 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, Iraq, when their convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one

'This Is What the US Military Was Doing in Iraq': Photos of 2005 Haditha Massacre Finally Published - Alaska Native News

“I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny,” said one survivor who was just 8 years old during the attack by U.S. Marines. After years of working with Iraqis whose relatives were killed by U.S. Marines in the 2005 Haditha massacre, American journalists […]