Taher Thabet
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Taher Thabet, 43, is an Iraqi journalism student and founder of the two-man Hammurabi Human Rights Group[1]. The day after a squad of US Marines allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians after an improvised explosive device detonated by insurgents killed Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas[2], Thabet, who lived around 100 yards away from the original IED blast in Haditha, videotaped the scene. He then shared his tape four months later with Time Magazine [3], which prompted Time Magazine to write a story on the incident.[4] This in turn has spurred several US and Iraqi administrative and criminal investigations into what is now known as the Haditha killings.
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- ^ Haditha defense questions key videotape, Iraqi group, Reuters, June 15, 2006
- ^ U.S. military mourns 'tragic' Haditha deaths, CNN. Accessed June 1, 2006.
- ^ One Morning in Haditha, Time. Accessed July 8, 2006.
- ^ On Scene: Picking up the Pieces In Haditha, Time. Accessed June 4, 2006.
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