Word: haditha
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...leaves his Pentagon office and heads to Capitol Hill Wednesday with grim news from Iraq. In a series of private briefings, he's expected to tell lawmakers that serious criminal charges - possibly including murder - are going to be leveled against as many as five Marines for the bloodbath at Haditha last year. The heads-up comes two weeks before the Marines are expected to publicly unveil the charges the week of Dec. 18 at the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, California...
...Haditha case began after an insurgent bomb killed a Marine in Haditha, 60 miles north of Baghdad, on Nov. 19, 2005. In the hours after his death, a squad of Marines killed 24 Iraqis, including some who local civilians claim were innocents simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Marines initially reported that only 15 Iraqis had died, and that they had been killed by a roadside bomb. Senior Marine officers did not investigate the incident at the time. The death toll went uninvestigated until TIME magazine raised questions last February...
...deciding how to handle the case, he cleared the Marine, saying the Iraqi used an insurgent's "common tactic" when he concealed his left arm behind his head and "feigned death." Insurgents would often then "rise to continue fighting." In what many sources say what a move related to Haditha but not publicly explained, last spring Natonski removed three officers after the incident because he had "lost confidence" in them. The three have not been charged...
...Shame Of Kilo Company Sparked by a TIME report published in March, a U.S. military investigation is probing the killing of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians by a group of Marines in the town of Haditha last November
...Cover: The Ghosts Of Haditha What happened one November morning in a dusty Iraqi town threatens to become one of the war's major debacles, an alleged atrocity committed by a small group of Marines that promises to haunt the hearts and minds of liberator and liberated alike