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"if any weapons were recovered from the house, they had not been fired recently."

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?

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.

The incident occurred on Nov. 19 05. Four months later, on March 17 06, NCIS agents were on their way to Iraq . After four months in storage, and not given special treatment as "evidence", I can't imagine that investigators can pinpoint the last day a weapon was fired.

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.