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| New Evidence Emerges in Haditha Case |
| 2006-07-27 |
| (Weeks old, but interesting). The Haditha incident may have been the result of WWII-style house-clearing techniques, where instead of knocking first - and giving the enemy the chance to kill the point man - Marines detected shots coming from a house and grenaded and shot it up after noticing movement within the house. These aggressive rules of engagement make sense given that there was just over a squad of marines in a four-humvee convoy, one of which had been knocked out. 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. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #3 I've got a couple of old feather pillows around here. Who has the tar? Also, we need a large rail, to ride him out of Washington on. I think I can supply that, also... On second thought, I think I'll DONATE that to all the other non-active Marines, so they can do it "to one of their own". The Marines not only take care of their own, they also clense their ranks. This is definitely one case where that's needed. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-07-27 21:14 |
| #2 Murtha's tour is to the 'true believers'. They've never cared a wit about truth, it's all about how they feel. The tour is to raise money. They will. Cause in the end for them, its not about truth, justice, or 'the American Way', its about power. |
| Posted by: Spinemp Whaish3182 2006-07-27 09:33 |
| #1 I look forward to this being resolved according to the truth, not politics. If they're innocent, I want Murtha tarred and feathered - after being forced to resign from the House. Gee, I wonder what will become of his political tour for House candidates if it turns out that he's a cocksucking liar... Think Nancy will still want to send her boy out to rouse the base(less)? |
| Posted by: Angolutle Fleresh8883 2006-07-27 09:21 |