MaxedOutMama
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Indispensable
For perspective on Haditha, Michael Yon, who has been there. More background from Mark in Mexico. There is a reason why these things must be investigated. A reporter's comments:
City Journal. The spring issue lives up to their rather high standards.
CNN reporter, Arwa Damon, writes:Villainous Company on Zarqawi's death.
“I know the Marines that were operating in western al Anbar, from Husayba all the way to Haditha. I went on countless operations in 2005 up and down the Euphrates River Valley. I was pinned on rooftops with them in Ubeydi for hours taking incoming fire, and I've seen them not fire a shot back because they did not have positive identification on a target. I saw their horror when they thought that they finally had identified their target, fired a tank round that went through a wall and into a house filled with civilians. They then rushed to help the wounded -- remarkably no one was killed.
“I was with them in Husayba as they went house to house in an area where insurgents would booby-trap doors, or lie in wait behind closed doors with an AK-47, basically on suicide missions, just waiting for the Marines to come through and open fire. There were civilians in the city as well, and the Marines were always keenly aware of that fact. How they didn't fire at shadows, not knowing what was waiting in each house, I don't know. But they didn't….”
City Journal. The spring issue lives up to their rather high standards.
