March 2008 • Issue 409



Battle for Haditha

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written and directed by Nick Broomfield
Star rating
****
Product link
http://www.nickbroomfield.com/haditha.html

Battle for Haditha

Insurgents plant a roadside bomb and wait in a nearby house. Local people debate what to do – some stay, others leave. The bomb explodes, killing US marines. Their comrades massacre men, women and children in nearby houses on the outskirts of the Iraqi town of Haditha.

Broomfield’s patient documentary style was gut-wrenching in Ghosts. Here, his sense of justice, his desire to pin down the strategists and officers higher up the command chain, sometimes leads him into shortcuts and speechifying. Otherwise it’s horribly real. This is what it’s like both to go berserk and to be scared shitless, while, on high, the manipulators remain untouched and spotless.




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