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As Chief of High Value Targeting at the Pentagon, Marc Garlasco was in charge of the hunt for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But now, in his position as a weapons expert at Human Rights Watch, he has become a critic of the military.
The first few minutes of the US assault on Iraq saw a rain of missiles on Baghdad. Marc Garlasco, now a senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch, was a Pentagon targeting analyst at the time.
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He has since used his expertise to study the recent 22-day bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces. White phosphorus, which is accepted as a flare over unpopulated battlefields, fell on Gaza City and other places full of civilians, like this UN school in Beit Lahia.
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