Rolling Stone, March 28, 2011

War crime images the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see

Far from being clandestine, as the Pentagon has implied, the murders of civilians were common knowledge among the unit

By Mark Boal

Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan, a group of American infantrymen reached a momentous decision: It was finally time to kill a haji. Among the men of Bravo Company, the notion of killing an Afghan civilian had been the subject of countless conversations, during lunchtime chats and late-night bull sessions.

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