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On That Day: Haditha

Posted on Wednesday April 2nd 2008 @ 17:16 GMT

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On That Day premiered during Channel Four's (UK) Happy Birthday Iraq Season: The Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War

A film directed by Marc Hoeferlin and myself, recently went out on More4 in the UK. We spent around five months in the edit piecing together the massive puzzle of archive and eyewitness accounts that we had gathered as research for Broomfield senior's deeply moving fiction film "Battle for Haditha."

The material that Marc and I gained was truly unbelievable. We had unprecedented access to testimonies from actual marines involved in the incident to eery drone footage shot only 30 minutes after the IED explosion that ripped through the US Marine convoy, prompting the killing of 24 innocent Iraqi civilians. With relatively small funds we managed to get behind the misleading headlines of one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq war, not only exposing the absurd hypocrisy of the American military judicial system but showing that wether innocent bystander, insurgent or US marine, all are involved in a war not of their own making and beyond their control.

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Posted by Barney Broomfield
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