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...second time in a week, U.S. troops in Iraq have been charged with murder. Four U.S. soldiers have been charged with killing three detainees in Iraq's Salahuddin province last month. Yesterday, the Marines announced that seven Marines and one Navy corpsman had been charged with kidnapping, conspiracy, and murder of an Iraqi man last April. And there may be more to come: An ongoing criminal investigation into the deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha last November, an alleged massacre first uncovered by TIME, may result in similar charges against several Marines...
...take cover in their rooftop bunkers. From an alley in the northeast, an insurgent fires a rocket-propelled grenade that slams a wall along the narrow mouth of a sandbagged gun pit. Shards of hot metal penetrate the opening, hitting Corporal Jonathan Wilson. Blood pours down his neck. "Corpsman up, corpsman up," he cries--asking for a medic to head to the roof. He runs downstairs and collapses into the arms of a sergeant...
...wall of Fort Qualls is decorated with paper hearts bearing the names of military men and women. D.J. Santiago Jr., 8, wrote his father's name on one and Douglas Santiago Sr., a Navy corpsman recently returned from Iraq, helped him stick it on the wall. "I am tired of being the silent majority," Tina Taylor Santiago, D.J.'s mother said. "So many of us support what our troops are doing and no one says anything...
...much more serious problem develops on Dec. 7: a medical corpsman reports that al-Qahtani is becoming seriously dehydrated, the result of his refusal to take water regularly. He is given an IV drip, and a doctor is summoned. An unprecedented 24-hour time out is called, but even as al-Qahtani is put under a doctor's care, music is played to "prevent detainee from sleeping." Nine hours later, a medical corpsman checks al-Qahtani's pulse and finds it "unusually slow." An electrocardiogram is administered by a doctor, and after al-Qahtani is transferred to a hospital...
...lieutenant shot the unarmed Iraqis without provocation. Officers from 2-2 say the sergeant had a track record of underachievement, and Gittins and several Marine officers say the sergeant had a grudge against Pantano after Pantano removed him from a squad-leader position. Gittins says the other witness, the corpsman, confirms that Pantano shouted a warning and says he saw the men move suddenly. The only difference is that the corpsman, from the angle he was watching, thought that the men might have been trying to escape...