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In The Dark

Episode 6: The Full Picture

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Startling new information emerges from deep within the investigation files. Then the In the Dark team gets a big break.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on in the in the dark.

0:07.0

How did the marine seem?

0:09.0

They are angry. They are angry and they want just to shoot.

0:15.0

But they want just to shoot.

0:16.0

They get his rifle and

0:23.7

and start shooting at us when we are under the band.

0:24.0

He put his rifle and start shooting to me and nor.

0:28.0

Maybe a lot of this is an imagination

0:31.0

and none of this was near as bad as it seemed. I'm talking about what actually happened to the civilians.

0:36.0

They do not get the pictures. Those pictures today have still not seen.

0:42.0

Where are I?

0:44.0

I don't know.

0:45.0

Frankly, I believe I gave the Marines the benefit of the doubt,

0:52.0

every opportunity that I could.

0:55.0

Yeah, I mean, did you think that a war crime had been committed?

1:00.0

I don't have any opinion on that. The first investigation into what happened on November 19th, 2005 in Haditha, the one

1:17.1

conducted by Colonel Watt, was brief and friendly and not too detailed.

1:22.0

But for all of Watt's inclination to give the Marines the benefit of the doubt,

1:25.6

he did recommend another investigation, a criminal one. And this investigation was conducted by

1:31.8

investigators who were not so friendly, not so willing

1:35.1

to give the Marines the benefit of the doubt.

1:38.1

This investigation was conducted by NCIS, the investigative arm of the Navy.

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