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...attack or trying to cover it up could be as high as 10, according to Marines who have talked to officials at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which is conducting the inquiry into the killings. Partial findings from the other investigation, into how the Marines' chain of command dealt with the Haditha killings, conducted by Army Major General Eldon Bargewell, were delivered to Pentagon officials last week. Marine Corps officials expect Bargewell, a highly respected member of the Army's special-operations fraternity, to conclude that Marine commanders knew within a few days of the incident that the official...
...separate team of investigators, meanwhile, is focusing on official deception: Did officers in Kilo Company--or further up the chain of command--cover up what happened that day? A Marine communiqué on Nov. 20 claimed that 15 Iraqi civilians had been killed, as Terrazas was, by the IED and that gunmen afterward opened fire on the Marines, who then killed eight insurgents. Only after Iraqi complaints of an atrocity were brought to the military's attention by TIME did the Marines acknowledge that all the Iraqis had died from gunfire. The Marines on April 7 removed two officers...
March 19, 2006: Chiarelli assigns Major General Eldon Bargewell to investigate the Marines' reporting of information about the incident up the chain of command...
April 7, 2006: Three Marine officers are relieved of their command, in part because of actions that may have been related to the Haditha incident...
...Chain Of Command...