Comment by justinclift

Seems to be missing something quite important:

    The Western media missed this story. Part of the reason was that the war-torn
    countryside had been difficult—though not impossible—for foreign reporters to
    access, so the scale of the crimes committed by U.S. forces and their allies
    went undocumented.

Sure, that's "part" of the story. The rest of the story is that if you make the crimes of the US forces public, then the US government will fuck you and your family over, and by extension the people around you.

Even if you're a non-US national living in a completely separate, supposedly "allied" country.

The most prominent example of course is Julian Assange.