Peter van Agtmael's Journey Through War

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Bullet holes dot the wall of a house in Mosul after a deadly firefight. When van Agtmael, accompanying the company commander, arrived at the scene, an "American soldier, wounded and shaking, was being carried into a Stryker. The house was filled with American and Iraqi soldiers. Iraqi men and boys in their pajamas were lined up squatting against the wall, their arms tied behind their backs. One American soldier stood away from the others, looking downward and breathing heavily. He shook his head and murmured inaudibly. He'd been the one, another soldier whispered to me, who pulled the trigger. 'Shot the Iraqi's head to pieces,' he said."

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