U.S. Marines killed 24 people, including little children, in an Iraqi town and recorded the aftermath of their actions.
The military tried to keep these photos from the public. No weapons were found and a military investigation determined that the dead were civilians. – Source
In an oral-history interview for the Marine Corps, in 2014, General Michael Hagee, who was the commandant of the Marine Corps at the time of the Haditha killings, bragged about keeping the Haditha photos secret. – Source
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After 19 years, photos of the Haditha Massacre that the U.S. Marines didn’t want the world to see have been released following a FOI request. The killers all avoided jail, and are free men.
I was on the other side of the river, it was a complex ambush. PBS did a story and released drone footage showing the gun battle between houses. Now the taxi cab is a different story.