Word: haditha
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...military continues its investigation of the alleged massacre of civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, allegations of a cover-up have mounted. The New York Times on Friday reported that pages detailing what happened on that day in Haditha had been excised from the official logbook of the company involved in the incident. But the sergeant on duty the next day at the unit's operation center, where the logbook was kept, denies that he tampered with the logbook...
...Through his lawyers, Staff Sergeant Frank D. Wuterich, the Marine who was the unit leader in Haditha on Nov. 19, says that, while he was on duty in the makeshift operations center the following day, he never handled the radio operator's green logbook. The logbook, he said, is usually kept by a low-ranking enlisted Marine and simply tracks the time of radio calls in and out of the center. Wuterich says he never took any pages out of the logbook and never "tampered" with...
...Pentagon inquiries into Haditha were triggered by a TIME magazine story last spring, when it was discovered that several Iraqi civilians in Haditha had not been killed by an Improvised Explosive Device, as a Marine press release claimed, but instead had been killed by Marines. The dead, most of them killed in their homes, included women and children. Doubt has been cast on the Marines' claim that they were responding to what they believed to be an insurgent attack, and on whether any of the Iraqi dead were even armed...
...says of the latest reports. "I have no idea what these reports are talking about." He says he believes he acted appropriately that day, and has filed a lawsuit for defamation against Congressman John Murtha, who claimed last May that Marines had "killed in cold blood" in Haditha. No Marines who were in Haditha have yet been charged with a crime, and no Marine has been detained...
...Kline was unavailable to elaborate on his statement, or say whether it indicated any fresh doubts about the allegations surrounding Haditha. But it may be a sign of the risks that candidates could face in criticizing U.S. troops as a midterm election approaches. "As a retired Colonel in the U.S. Marines," said Kline, who faces Coleen Rowley, the FBI whistleblower, this November, "I am especially proud of the sacrifices our men and women make day in and day out, especially in combat situations. And as a Marine Officer I would never want to publicly insinuate, implicitly or explicitly, that...