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...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...
...very well be that the reason the Iraqi government was so late coming to the table to condemn the incident in Haditha, was because they really, culturally, don't understand what the big deal was. We can't accept those types of degraded values in our soldiers and Marines, and are outraged when we think they went over the line...
...Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies I far more trust the press than I do the Administration with judgment of what should be secret and what shouldn't. How many scandals has the Administration uncovered on its own? It was the press that uncovered Abu Ghraib, the massacre at Haditha, the abuses at Guantánamo. I think the press has been very responsible in the past. When I was at ABC, we always checked with the Administration in power when we thought we had something of concern, and there was usually some way to work...
...known as a courtly Virginia gentleman, but Sen. John Warner, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is playing hardball. The 79-year-old Republican Senator has just ratcheted up the pressure on the Defense Department to come clean on what happened at Haditha. On Tuesday Warner fired off a stern letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before...
...Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking U.S. general in Iraq, and then passed on to Rumsfeld in Washington. A separate criminal investigation by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service will take longer to complete. Warner, however, says in his letter he wants to "hold a series of hearings" on Haditha and he wants the Pentagon to come forward with its findings quickly, and not wait for all the probes to be completed...