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Search results for "civilian casualties" ...
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Rules of Engagement
The investigation examined the incident that came to be know as the Haditha Massacre, in which a number of Iraqi civilians were killed by U.S. Marines after an IED attack that killed a man in their convoy. The initial reports incorporated accounts of execution-style killings of 24 unarmed men, women and children in a rampage that media often compared to the My Lai massacre. However, the investigation found that the convoy had come under fire from the direction of the four houses, one of the houses contained weapons and forensic and ballistic evidence provided support for the Marines' accounts of what happened that day.
Tags: rules of engagement; Marine; Iraq; Haditha Massacre; civilian casualties; suicide bomber; Iraq War
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
An in depth report of the "...elite Army platoon that killed hundreds of unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War, and a military officer who substantiated the war crimes- only to see his investigation covered up by the Pentagon."
Tags: Vietnam War; Army; Tiger Force; war crimes; Department of Denfense; civilian casualties
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"The Toll of War"
Three part series revealed the 'hidden costs' of war in Iraq. An examination of more than 4,600 never-before released civil claims from Iraq showed that American military frequently didn't pursue criminal investigations when soldiers were accused of abusing civilians.
Tags: Iraq; war; casualties; civil claims; military; criminal investigation; abuse; soldiers; cost of war
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Line of Fire
This story investigates the fate of four members of an embedded British ITN TV news crew who wandered onto an Iraqi battlefield and wound up caught in the crossfire between Iraqi fighters and US Marines. The author's reporting, observations at the scene and photographs helped establish that the Marines were involved in the incident, contrary to US military claims.
Tags: embedding; embedded; journalists; military; tanks; Iraq; Hussein; civilian casualties
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Memories of a Massacre
60 Minutes II told the story of a secret military operation in Thanh Phong led by former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey. Kerrey, who originally went public with the story in the New York Times magazine, said he and his men accidentally massacred women and children in this Vietnamese hamlet after they were fired upon. Subsequent interviews by 60 Minutes II reveal that "the killings may not have been accidental and may in fact have been the result of a planned an deliberate operation... Eyewitnesses said there was no Viet Cong fire."
Tags: Bob Kerrey; Vietnam; civilian casualties; military