The Marines and the Ceasefire in Iraq

Costello says the platoon commander, Ben Wagner, remember, he's the one who'd been watching for the mortar to drop and hit the tire barricade. "He sometimes chewed the guys out for being too aggressive," Costello said. The patrol came after the American contractors were killed by a mob. Their bodies burned and strung up from a bridge when the Marines have been ordered to go teach insurgents a lesson.