Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them "execution-style," in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November...
The pictures are said to show wounds to the upper bodies of the victims, who included several women and six children. Some were shot in the head and some in the back, congressional and defense officials said.
One government official said the pictures showed that infantry Marines from Camp Pendleton "suffered a total breakdown in morality and leadership..."
story By Tony Perry and Julian E. Barnes | Los Angeles Times from TruthOut
~Which begs the question, like Abu Ghraib, would there be an investigation if there were no photographs?
The magic of photography.