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...Marines murder unarmed Iraqi civilians and then cover up the slayings? While our story prompted wide agreement that anyone found guilty should be disciplined, readers also blamed the enemy's tactics and the Administration's policies for increasing the duress under which U.S. troops are serving...
...allegations of the slaughter of innocent Iraqi men, women and children are proved to be true, the Marines involved should be punished accordingly [June 12]. That American troops are stretched too thin and under incredible stress is not an excuse for murder. But the focus should be on the leaders who put our troops in this hellish situation in the first place and who stubbornly leave them there to fight a senseless...
What a raw deal for the U.S. military. We put our troops under extreme pressure day after day, with no relief, and then when they crack we want to try them for murder...
CHARGED. Seven U.S. Marines and a Naval corpsman, from California's Camp Pendleton Marine base; with the kidnapping and murder of an unarmed Iraqi man who was pulled from his home and shot as troops sought insurgents in the city of Hamandiya; in Washington. The charges came amid an investigation into alleged murders at Haditha by other Marines--and in the same week that the Pentagon announced charges against four Army soldiers in the murder of three Iraqi detainees in Salahuddin province...
DIED. Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose still unsolved 1996 murder fueled massive media interest and myriad theories about the slaying, leading Patsy and her husband John to sue authors and news outlets that suggested they were the killers; of ovarian cancer; in Roswell...