there’s an absolutely horrifying story behind the family killed at a checkpoint in iraq last week. the story is graphic, but it reminds me that there are real people that get hidden behind innocuous euphemisms like the “fog of war”:

“Details emerging from interviews with survivors of yesterday’s incident tell a distressing tale of a family fleeing towards what they thought would be safety, tragically misunderstanding instructions.

Hassan’s father, in his 60s, wore his best clothes for the trip through the American lines: a pinstriped suit.

“To look American,” Hassan said. ”