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By Nathaniel R. Helms,Haytham Faraj

An Unflinching examine a Black bankruptcy in Our struggle in Iraq and America’s Failure to Serve Justice

In the waning days of 2005, twelve Marines have been ambushed by means of Sunni Muslim insurgents on course Chestnut, an historic Mesopotamian street on the south fringe of Haditha, Iraq, whilst an IED detonated lower than one among 4 Humvees they occupied, killing or wounding 1 / 4 in their quantity. The surviving Marines quick counterattacked. Their cruel reaction killed twenty-four Iraqi voters, together with an previous guy and ten girls and kids. This bad come across used to be speedy dubbed the Haditha bloodbath and in comparison to My Lai, and its echoes nonetheless resonate this day. caused through overseas condemnation, the Pentagon and Marine Corps initiated court-martial court cases opposed to the Marines involved.

No Time for the Truth is the 1st ebook to teach how the next seven-year research and trial—which led to just a unmarried minor conviction—was not more than theater intended to soothe an outraged public and salvage US-Iraq family. Authors Nathaniel Helms and Haytham Faraj, who served as security information, exhibit how the Pentagon careworn prosecutors to guard the integrity of the Marine Corps via hiding the totally ugly nature of killings perpetrated via “battle-rattled” squaddies, with the purpose of laying blame on the toes of a unmarried employees sergeant. this can be a wonderful account of 1 of the darkest moments within the warfare in Iraq, a serious exam of no matter if justice was once even wanted, and a strong assertion that during battle, “truth is the 1st casualty.”


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