Broomfield to dramatise alleged Iraq massacre (a film about Haditha)

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Nick Broomfield is making a film about the alleged massacre of Iraqi civilians and insurgents by US marines in Haditha. He will begin shooting in Jordan this November using a small film crew and non-actors for the principal roles.

On November 19 2005, a roadside bomb in the Sunni town of Haditha killed Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas. The US military initially claimed that 15 civilians had died in the blast, but then said that the civilians were accidentally shot by marines during a gun battle with insurgents.

However, eyewitness accounts and a video shot by a local journalist have suggested that the civilian deaths were revenge killings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1881132,00.html

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