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In The Dark

Episode 7: Innocent in My Eyes

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

The conflicting narratives about what happened in Haditha make their way through the opaque inner workings of the military justice system, until they reach a top commander who decides which story to believe.

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0:00.0

Previously on In the in the dark.

0:05.0

Oh my God.

0:07.0

Sherritt was he was a goofball he was very much into the pop punk so like like the sum 41, Blake 182, that was his stick. He loved that stuff.

0:17.0

He said, I popped your nine mills cherry. But...

0:20.0

What did I think? I assumed it meant that he had

0:24.7

fucking shot someone with it.

0:27.7

So they just came out one after one and they all stood there on their grandfather's front yard.

0:39.0

You and you and you

0:44.1

they wanted at each one to go inside the house.

0:48.3

I'll be here in the room I'm a trip on my a phone that I'm said that I have saying that this marine who's claiming that this marine who's claiming that this was his truth, she said that he knows the truth as she knows it. She doesn't care at all what he says. One day just before Christmas in 2006 a little over a year after the killings

1:26.5

a Marine Colonel took the podium in a drab briefing room at Camp Pendleton.

1:30.7

On the morning of 19 November 2005,

1:34.4

a four-vehicle convoy of Marines was moving through Haditha.

1:38.4

The Colonel told the press gathered in front of him

1:40.7

that the investigations into what had happened were nearly complete.

1:44.0

Based on the findings of the investigations, various charges have been preferred against four

1:48.5

Marines relating to the deaths of the Iraqi civilians on 19 November 2005.

1:54.9

These charges include murder.

1:57.0

Murder charges against four Marines

1:59.6

brought by the US military itself,

2:01.9

within its own justice system.

2:04.0

That's the way war crimes for the most part are handled in the US, in-house.

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