Word: haditha
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...Marines Under Fire Reading about the allegations that U.S. Marines killed Iraqi civilians in Haditha was an extremely sickening experience [June 12]. I would call the episode a massacre. What right do the Marines have to butcher innocent people? It's high time the U.S. stops claiming it is liberating the Iraqi people. Americans have no business being in Iraq, and yet they have the nerve to rationalize the massacre by claiming that the Marines work under pressure. Is the U.N. sleeping? Sandeep Dawkhar Bombay...
...dereliction of duty for not reporting the crimes. The grisly March 12 slayings--in which Abeer's skull was smashed and her legs and torso set on fire--sparked the military's fifth investigation into U.S. personnel accused of murdering Iraqi civilians. But unlike the massacre in Haditha, where Marines are suspected of shooting up to 24 innocent people in November following the death of a beloved comrade, the butchering of Abeer's family does not appear to be the result of vengeance or confusion. Instead, all signs point to premeditated depravity...
...apparent lack of supervision makes it harder for military officials to cast this as a one-time, isolated incident, particularly after an Army general concluded last week that Marine officers had been negligent in failing to probe the deaths in Haditha. In a joint statement, the U.S. ambassador and the senior U.S. commander in Iraq called the soldiers' alleged acts in Mahmudiya "absolutely inexcusable and unacceptable." Officials say one purpose of their pledge to vigorously and transparently investigate and prosecute the crimes is to quell the calls from Iraqis, among them Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, to stop granting...
...Good riddance to al-Zarqawi, who killed a lot of innocent people in his limited time as a terrorist. But how does the evil he was responsible for compare with the death and destruction visited upon innocent Iraqis as a result of U.S. bombings and atrocities like Haditha? I await the day when the Iraqis celebrate a similar good riddance to the U.S. troops as they withdraw from Iraq. Shehzad Ahmed Mir Islamabad Is the Boom Over? "Can Spain sustain?" [June 19] reported on an economic matter that transcends ideological debates and is present in Spain's everyday life...
...small group of Marines slaughter ordinary citizens, including a 4-year-old boy. It is high time for the U.S. and the world to rethink whether the Iraq war is still a fight for liberty and justice. If we fail to face the question, atrocities like the one in Haditha will happen again. Kayoko Suganuma Nagoya, Japan...