Well, Haditha is a big city. I don’t know if the reporter talked to neighbors or family of the people killed on Nov. 19, ‘05 or people a mile away from the scene.
I do think some of the published outrage andtestimony back in June, 06, and the video was more about the compensation and quite possibly orchestrated by the lawyer, Rsayef. Not that family members wouldn’t be outraged, shocked and grieving to lose so many family members - but there were too many suspect statements/actions by the lawyer to ignore.
Interestingly, no reporter from Time magazine actually went to Haditha to interview anyone there for the first article. Time's Iraqi stringer met with video producer al-Hadithi in Baghdad.
As we've discussed, the IED was paved under the road in front of the two houses. I just wonder if the Haditha residents felt that the deaths of those fellow citizens were no great loss. This is a possible reason the town has "moved on" so rapidly.