2005 Tal Afar shootings
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| January 2005 Tal Afar shootings | |
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| Part of US war crimes in Iraq | |
 Location of Nineveh Governorate in Iraq | |
| Location | Tal Afar, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq |
| Date | 18 January 2005 |
| Deaths | 2 |
| Injured | 6 |
| Perpetrators | United States Armed Forces |
In January 2005, two parents were shot dead in Tal Afar, Iraq, as they were driving from a hospital, by the US army. They had been mistaken for suicide bombers.
Chain of command
[edit]For this incident, the chain of command appears to have been-
George W. Bush, Commander-in-Chief
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Commanding General George W. Casey Jr.
Lieut. Gen. David Petraeus, Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq [North]
Brig. Gen. Carter Ham
Col. Robert Mark Brown (1st Brigade)
Lt. Col. Mark Davis
Command Maj. Brent Clemmer
Capt. Thomas Siebold (Alpha Company).
References
[edit]- ↑ "Checkpoints test US troops' rules". BBC News. March 8, 2005. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
- ↑ "The Best of Photo Journalism 2006 > Still Photography Winners > International News Picture Story 1st Place". National Press Photographers Association. Archived from the original on 2007-03-03.
- ↑ "In pictures: Shooting in Tal Afar". BBC News. January 2005. Retrieved January 6, 2010.
- ↑ "One Night in Iraq: Chris Hondros Witnesses A Shooting After Nightfall". The Times. London. January 21, 2005. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Chris Hondros Wins OPC's Robert Capa Gold Medal Award". The Stock Photo Industry Press Release Cemetery. April 19, 2006. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ↑ Chittister, Joan (January 28, 2005). "What the Rest of the World Watched on Inauguration Day". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved March 17, 2012.
- ↑ "The Photographers". Getty Images.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "The Photographers Award Winning Work By Chris Hondros", Getty Images, archived from the original on November 10, 2007
- ↑ Hondros, Chris. "The Continuing Story". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 2007-05-23.
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