In response, an IED concealed inside a soccer ball is planted where the squad routinely patrols, killing Sgt Sweet. When a car carrying a pregnant woman races through the checkpoint en route to the local hospital, Private Flake shoots and kills the woman and her unborn baby. French documentary filmmakers Marc and Francois Clement, who are filming the squad, empathize with the soldiers’ predicament while pointing out that at least half the Iraqi population is illiterate and can't read the signs others misunderstand the soldiers' instructions and consequently terrible mistakes are often made. It's tedious and, at times, very dangerous. The squad known as the Mustangs — which includes Salazar, Corporal Lawyer McCoy (Rob Devaney), specialist Billy Rush (Daniel Stewart Sherman), privates Gabe Blix (Kel O'Neill) and Reno Flake (Patrick Carroll), Sergeant Vazques (Mike Figueroa), and Master Sergeant James Sweet (Ty Jones) — spend endless afternoons sweating in the hot sun under 120 pounds of gear, stopping and searching people and vehicles for weapons and bombs. Life in Samarra, where Salazar and his fellow grunts man army checkpoints, however, isn't exactly the front lines. Salazar joined the army in order to make enough money for college, and hopes the 'war film' he’s shooting will help get him into USC film school. Samarra, Iraq, 2006: PFC Angel Salazar (Izzy Diaz), a would-be filmmaker stationed at sweltering Camp Carolina, aka 'The Oven,' begins filming his video diary. Out of these 'real' accounts, details of a terrible atrocity emerge. Army private, a slick French art-house documentary, Arab news-channel special reports, base-camp security-camera footage, Army interrogation tapes, and Internet video posts. Using the editorial method known as 'redaction,' by which multiple, often conflicting sources are collated and often censored to form a single, coherent text, the film looks and feels like nonfiction cobbled together out of several independent visual documents: the video journal of a U.S. Brian De Palma isn't waiting another 20 years to make an Iraq War counterpart to 1989's CASUALTIES OF WAR, his delayed reaction to the moral quagmire of Vietnam.

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