From Zayed of Healingirag blog
"Thanks to everyone who pointed out this story to me. Wendell Steavenson, a former reporter for Time magazine, has been in Samarra interviewing Zaydun’s family, his cousin Marwan, an Iraqi ICDC lieutenant, as well as the American Colonel in command of the US force in Samarra."
Most of you may recall the Marwan and Zaydun, two cousins, who drove a small white flatbed truck carrying ceramic floor tiles and toilets into Samarra. Inside the town they were stopped by an American patrol as curfew violators. What happened next is disputed. But two things are clear: The truck they were driving was destroyed, and the two cousins went off a bridge into the Tigris and one of them drowned.
Slate’s follow up story is at the title link.
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