Michael Yon’s latest Dispatch is titled Bless the Beasts and The Children. It is a haunting post, the kind that will stay with you for hours, if not days.
I told the Iraqi commander, Captain Baker, that it was important that Americans see this; he took me around the graves and showed more than I wanted to see. He said the people had been murdered by al Qaeda. I made video of him speaking, and of the horrible scene. The heat and stench were crushingly oppressive and broken only by the sounds of shovels as Iraqi soldiers kept digging.
I warn you, the post contains some graphic images. As always with Michael, you get the good, the bad and the ugly. This is ugly.
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