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'Darkest hour' in the Iraq war

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On 12 March 2006, US soldiers were summoned to a small house near Baghdad, where they discovered the charred remains of two girls and their parents.

Time magazine journalist Jim Frederick describes the background to a horrific war crime committed by four US soldiers.


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