In November 2005, U.S. marines in Iraq were involved in the killing of 24 civilians—including women and children. Shortly after the story became public, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all documents related to the incident and other civilian casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although we received thousands of documents in response, the government did not give us a single document relating specifically to the killings at Haditha.
After a two-year-long investigation, no murder charges are being filed against Marines involved in the killings of 24 civilians - including woman and children - in Haditha, Iraq, on November 25, 2005. Instead four Marines will face various lesser charge
