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carpro
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 Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject: New Evidence in Haditha Case |
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News Max
New Evidence Emerges in Haditha Case
Phil Brennan, NewsMax
Monday, June 26, 2006
New evidence continues to emerge that U.S. Marines did not wantonly kill Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November - and the soldiers' accounts of what happened are backed up by videotape shot by an ultralight vehicle, NewsMax has learned.
According to media reports, last Nov. 19 members of a Marine Corps company killed some 24 innocent civilian Iraqis in Haditha, a town 140 miles northwest of Baghdad and near the Syrian border.
In the ensuing media firestorm that broke out after the story was revealed, many news reports here and abroad compared the Haditha deaths to the infamous My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Michael Sallah, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his My Lai reporting, has said: "You would have difficulties finding a single newspaper in Germany or elsewhere in Europe which does not deal with My Lai."
But the facts and accounts from Marines and others on the ground tell another story.
SNIP
The NCIS investigation is still ongoing.
In May, when Rep. John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on "Good Morning America," he accused the Marines of K Company of killing innocent civilians "in cold blood" and said that the killings had been covered up by higher officers.
The Bargewell report has disproved that allegation, and with the NCIS investigation so far incomplete and no soldier charged with a crime, how would Murtha know?
broken link fixed & converted/kate
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wonhyo
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| Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:32 am Post subject: Murtha may have to testify |
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| If Murtha has to testify in the Haditha trial, will that be reported? Will he have to testify where he got the information he claimed he received about the so called innocent killings? I hope that we will get a chance to hear from whom he got this info, or if this was something he made up. |
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kate
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| Quote: | # Ample evidence proves that a firefight took place. For example, every second of the ensuing firefight was monitored by numerous people at company, battalion, and regimental HQs via radio communications.
# Video evidence supports the Marines' claims. Within a very few minutes, battalion, regimental, and division headquarters were able to watch the action thanks to an overhead ultralight aircraft that remained aloft all day. Photos of some of the action were downloaded and in the hands of Marines and the NCIS.
# Some of the insurgents involved in planning the attack and firing at Marines during a daylong engagement have been apprehended and are in custody. |
Pray that Phil Brennan has the real scoop here. Long read, but very interesting
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Can we say RATHERGATE? When Murtha testifies as to his source! 
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GenrXr
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Hopefully, this article is accurate. Thanks for the link.
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