Tapes reveal motive in soldiers’ killing of four Iraqi detainees
An investigation by CNN’s Abbie Boudreau and Scott Zamost found that U.S. soldiers interrogated by the Army in the 2007 murders of four Iraqi detainees blamed a military policy they said made it too hard to detain suspected insurgents. CNN obtained 23½ hours of Army interrogation videotapes that detail the March 2007 executions of the prisoners by three decorated sergeants. The Army had denied CNN’s request for the tapes of a confession by one of the sergeants, the network obtained those tapes and others on its own. The investigation is airing as a series on AC 360 as well as a primetime documentary.
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