Posted on 06/10/2007 12:25:50 PM PDT by RedRover
And, most of all, please remember Justin and the entire Sharratt family in your prayers.
Great Find!
Thanks for the update and the “roster” of those who are going to go in and lay it on the line for Justin Sharratt as he has risked his life for the US and Iraqis.
Prayers always.
Great to see you, Race. Say a prayer, will you?
Thanks for the update. Keep us informed.
These families are in my prayers.
Good job Red. Prayers going up.
Thanks, April! This thread will always have the latest news and we’ll post major developments as individual threads as well.
BUMP!
Thank God Justin is alive and did what he needed to do. In the same situation, with the body of my comrade laying in the street, I would have shot everything non-Marine that moved in those houses full of insurgents and collaborators.
After all this time the msm has been saying "24 unarmed iraqi civilians". Now it turns out that there were weapons found. You can sometimes tell if a weapon has been fired and not cleaned but can you tell when it had been fired? And if so, do we have the results of the tests and did the defense have access to the results? What about chain of custody for the weapons? Were the 4 iraqis' hands subjected to a gunpowder residue test by the Marines?
Regarding the insurgents and collaborators in Haditha, take a look at this pdf file, Investigation of 3/1 Marine 19 Nov 05 Haditha Complex Attack. It's the investigative report on Haditha from March 3, 2006, by Col. Gregory A. Watt.
You’re exactly right.
If these leaks are true these prosecutors should be drummed out of the Corps. Nothing but preemptive BS. It’s like asking someone when they stopped beating their wife.
Ping
Thanks for all the work you are doing keeping up with the Haditha Marine cases. Any idea what’s on the roster for tomorrow?
Re. the weapons, I’ve seen conflicting reports that one, two and zero weapons were found. I wonder if an investigation was not initiated at the time, if any confiscated weapons would have been kept, tagged, etc. like a police dept. would do. What happens to all the weapons that are taken from insurgents/terrorists in Iraq?
As the Watt report (posted above) states, there's no way to collect physical evidence after so much time (especially when houses have been repaired). And it works both ways. If AK-47 shell casings were found in or near the houses, there's no way to prove whether the bullets were fired at Marines on Nov. 19th.
That's why I think NCIS agent did their usual thing and intimidated the hell out of Kilo Company Marines until someone was willing to play ball and say he heard someone "confess". Remember, that's what they tried in the Lt. Phan case and it blew up in their faces. Lucky for them, the Secretary of the Navy denied an investigation into their conduct.
I'm not all at all sure about tomorrow's roster. In the Stone and Chessani hearings, they started with Marines who were in Haditha that day and could provide a kind of overview based on what they witnessed. Could be almost anybody (maybe Kallop for the third time?)
Further to the point above about NCIS, the kind of thing that bothers me is this bit about in the news about LCpl. Andrew Wright and LCpl. Ryan Briones. According to Wright's parents, Andrew "was under so much pressure because of the investigation that he had consulted with an attorney, they said."
Wright only arrived on the scene long after the action had taken place. Why would NCIS hammer at him? (Of course, Briones is in prison now so I doubt he'll be on the prosecution witness list.)
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