…The military began a criminal investigation into the Nov. 19 deaths of 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha, west of Baghdad, following a March 27 report by Time Magazine that Marines killed unarmed Iraqis.

“There are three or four at least at this time,” Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad in response to a question about how many other such incidents were under investigation. Caldwell didn’t have any details of those probes, and didn’t know their status, beyond that they’re in “the first stages,” he told a news conference carried live on the Pentagon Web site.
bloomberg.com

BBC video:Iraq War Vets talk about random civilian killings
Newsnight follow a group of former US soldiers who have returned from Iraq deeply affected by the experience. As they march across America to protest, shocking interviews emerge on the indiscriminate killing of Iraqi civilians.

Veterans reveal they had been trained to see Iraqis as animals, shoot up the landscape and kill anything that moved. Shovels and guns were carried by patrols in order to give the false impression that innocent killed civilians were actually up to no good – supposedly killed whilst digging holes for IED’s.

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