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It's now about 17:30 and we're finishing up the day here at an observation post. And right now for about the last 10-15 minutes you can hear in the background the evening singing from the minarets. Believe it or not, sooner or later we will kill some of these folks who need to be killed. And that's the beautiful thing about this world is that there's always someone who needs to be killed and we're the folks to do it.

I've spent the past four years investigating a crime. A crime that most people have long forgotten. He heard the sound of really strong bombing. I heard M-16. A crime that for almost 20 years has gone unpunished.

They went into the room and they were just taking shots. How did they not perceive that these were children? I remember I opened a Humvee and I just see bodies stacked up. I opened another one, same thing. I'm like, shit.

A four-year investigation, hundreds of interviews, thousands of documents, all in an effort to see what the U.S. military has kept from the public for years. You know, I don't know what's to be gained by this investigative journalism.

I'm not interested in talking about that. That was a long time ago and I tried to move past all that, so no thank you on all that. He was saying it was so traumatic, he couldn't talk about it. You and you and you. And you and you, they wanted each one to go inside the house. Can I help you? Hey there, Mr. Chesani. My name's Parker. I'm a radio reporter working at... Parker what? What did I think? I assumed it meant that he had fucking shot someone. It's not a big deal.

Fucking everyday shit. No more Dane Hadidah. Season three of In the Dark. Nine new episodes beginning July 30th. To get the first two episodes early, visit newyorker.com slash dark and follow In the Dark wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss a single episode.