The Iraqi town of Haditha has been the scene of a massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians including women,children and old people.
The massacre was the work of US soldiers belonging to the third battalion of First Regiment of the First Marine Division.
This was not a frenzied outburst ...the killings took place over a five hour period on the 19th November2005 but has only recently become known to the wider American public.
Is this Iraq's equivalent of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968...a symbol of violence of the occupation?
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