For years, we’d thought what everyone thought: that there were twenty-four civilians killed by Marines in Haditha on November 19, 2005. But maybe everyone was wrong. To find online-only features, visit newyorker.com/season3.
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For years, while reporting on the Haditha killings, I thought what everyone else thought, that there were 24 civilians killed by Marines on November 19, 2005.
24 victims.
That's what's been reported in basically every news story about haditha.
Allegations that U.S.
marines murdered 24 Iraqis.
24 civilians died, 24 unarmed men, women.
Deaths of 24.
Iraq.
20 civilian deaths of 24.
Deaths of 24 Iraqi citizens in the city of Haditha.
It's a number the military gave in press conference.
24 Iraqi men, women and children.
The number that members of Congress used when they talked about the killings.
Women and children, 24 people they killed.
Now, this is the kind of stuff.
That'S the kind of stress.
But as we got deeper and deeper into our reporting, we began to wonder if maybe that number was wrong.