Tuesday, July 3, 2007
American and Iraqi troops roll into an Iraqi village occupied by Al Qaeda. They find a carnal house. Michael Yon has an important photo essay...and a description of the stench.
...While that was happening elsewhere in Baqubah, we stood around the stinking graves of people who had gotten a close-up view of al Qaeda-style justice. The villagers’ bodies were rotting in the heat before us...
[via Michael Totten]
Update: Yon has an important update to the story.. A snip:
...for those publications who actually had people embedded in Baqubah when the story first broke and still failed to cover it, their malaise is inexplicable. I do not know why all failed to report the murders and booby-trapped village: apparently no reporters bothered to go out there, even though it’s only about 3.5 miles from this base. Any one of the reporters currently in Baqubah could still go to these coordinates and follow his or her nose and find the gravesites...
