PHOTOGRAPHS taken by US military intelligence have provided crucial evidence that up to 24 Iraqis were massacred by marines in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha. One photograph shows an Iraqi mother and young child, kneeling on the floor as if in prayer. They have both been shot dead at close range. The pictures also show other Iraqi victims, shot execution-style in the head and chest in their ownhomes. A US government official said the marines involved had "suffered a total breakdown in morality and leadership". The killings are emerging as the worst known US atrocity of the Iraq war. At...
