This program is drawn from a new season of the award-winning investigative podcast In the Dark. On a November day in 2005, in the city of Haditha, Iraq, something terrible happened. āDepending on whose story you believed, the killings were a war crime, a murder,ā the lead reporter Madeleine Baran says. āOr they were a legitimate combat action and the victims were collateral damage. Or the killings were a tragic mistake, unintentionalāsad, but not criminal. Basically, the only thing that everyone could agree on was that twenty-four people had died, and it was marines whoād killed them.ā Season 3 of In the Dark looks at what happened that day in Haditha, and why no one was held accountable for the killings. Baran and her team travelled to twenty-one states and three continents over the course of four years to report on a story that the world had largely forgotten. Episode 1 airs this week on The New Yorker Radio Hour, and you can listen to the rest of the series wherever you get your podcasts.
