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🗓️ 20 August 2024
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Was it a face-off with insurgents or the murder of four innocent brothers? We investigate what happened in the final house the Marines entered that day.
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0:00.0 | Previously on in the in the dark. |
0:05.0 | I remember I opened a Humvee and I just seen bodies stacked up, you know, and I open another one same thing I'm like |
0:15.3 | shit I'm I don't know what I thought for last what got for sada |
0:20.0 | what he noticed was gunshots most Most of them are a gunshot in the head or in the chest. |
0:27.0 | Shuts, yes. |
0:28.0 | They died this way. |
0:30.0 | They have different values than we do. |
0:33.0 | Okay, they're more concerned about the living than those that have passed. |
0:38.0 | They do not get the pictures. |
0:40.0 | Those pictures today have still not been seen. |
0:45.0 | After the Marines shot the people by the white car and went inside Safa's house and |
0:58.3 | Abdul Rahman's house and killed nearly everyone inside, they took a break and regrouped. Some of the Marines walked |
1:05.2 | over to a nearby empty house and went up to the rooftop. They were up there for a while, smoking |
1:10.4 | cigarettes. And then they said said they saw something suspicious in the |
1:14.8 | courtyard down below. Exactly what that suspicious thing was is unclear. |
1:19.2 | One Marine told investigators there was gunfire coming from a house down there. |
1:24.4 | The others just described a man or men moving around outside near a house. |
1:29.2 | Whatever it was, it got the Marine's attention. |
1:32.0 | And so, three Marines, the squad leader, |
1:34.4 | Sergeant Frank Wuterich, his right-hand man, Corporal Hector Salinas, |
1:38.7 | and the squads Gunner, Lance Corporal Justin Sherritt, |
1:41.9 | the one who sometimes wore the patch that said |
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