noncombatants in
the line of fire as the Marines responded to defend themselves."

Because
the incident is officially under investigation, members of the Marine
unit that was in Haditha on Nov. 19 are not allowed to speak with
reporters. But the military's own reconstruction of events and the
accounts of town residents interviewed by Timeincluding six whose
family members were killed that daypaint a picture of a devastatingly
violent response by a group of U.S. troops who had lost one of their own
to a deadly insurgent attack and believed they were under fire. Time
obtained a videotape that purports to show the aftermath of the Marines'
assault and provides graphic documentation of its human toll. What
happened in Haditha is a reminder of the horrors faced by civilians
caught in the middle of warand what war can do to theAndreas Kurz

Andreas is one of hastexo's original founders, together with Martin and Florian. He has more than 10 years' experience encompassing a broad range of technologies essential for successful high availability system design. Starting with several years of maintaining, tuning, troubleshooting and designing proprietary network, backup, cluster, storage and server systems, he gained broad and deep knowledge on the most critical aspects of system and service availability.

Andreas served as hastexo's CTO and one of our Principal Consultants.

At the end of August 2014, Andreas transitioned out of hastexo to pursue a role outside the technical consulting space. His departure was for personal reasons and entirely amicable.