Never-before-revealed images from a Haditha surveillance video [Part two: Insurgents regroup]

Defend Our Marines ^ | September 15, 2007 | Nathaniel R. Helms

[Girlene]

Well, this is crazy. This is one of the things Darryl complained about. They (NCIS) spent so much money and time trying to pin charges to Marines, but basically forgot to piece together the whole story, starting with the triggerer(s). If an investigative body was really doing their job, they would try to determine the whole story to make sure the pieces fit and made sense. And beyond the investigation, it would be some deserved justice for the Terrazis family to know what happened to their son’s killers.

[RedRover]

Absolutely. There was never any concern, from Murtha or Tim McGirk, over the death of LCpl Terrazas or knowing what happened to his killers.

[RS]

“0814 – above - Possible trigger house approximately 250 meters (roughly 750 feet) south of the IED ambush position. “

Nope - the houses in that picture are located at

34° 7’44.40”N 42°22’49.85”E on Google Earth

about 150 m NORTH of the IED

[RS]

“0829 – Another frame showing the same two insurgents fleeing the area.

The two suspects are approximately 250 meters (750 feet) south of the IED blast site moving in an unstated direction – probably north toward a large palm grove “

Again ... nope They are near the houses to the north, and they are headed west - the opening in the wall they are going through and the worn path they are on can be seen about 50m west of the house coordinates I gave above.

[Girlene]

Hey, RS, can you put up the google image that you’re describing and include Route Chestnut in the image?

[RS]

http://aycu32.webshots.com/image/29551/2002486924571703099_fs.jpg

[RS]

I've zoomed in, tilted and rotated the images so you can see better

[Girlene]

That makes sense to me. So the possible trigger house that Scan Eagle was looking at was 150 m North (almost directly) of the IED. I can’t see the location of the two suspects leaving the house. You may be right, I just can’t make it out.

[RS]

Shrank it a tad and dropped it into place

[RS]

Right now I'm trying to locate this house, just a few frames of the cnn clip shows Marines running towards it.

[Girlene]

Do you have a link to the CNN clip to include? Is this is the house that another group of Marines were assaulting later - the safe house? Originally this group had the wrong house (next door, I believe) before they corrected to the safe house that was eventually blown up. Would this fit better in the last thread “The Battle Site”?

[RS]

Don’t have a link to it - I captured the video so I could frame by frame it. Should be on CNN’s site somewhere.

But anyway - I found the house, it’s the one where the enemy who ran from the safe house was caught at ( further south and about 1/4 mile west ... it’s off the bottom of the overview I sent you )
CNN appears to have changed the sequence if the thread poster here has the legend right. At this point it dosen’t seem to hold any significance.

Now I’m trying to find any kind of regular street map of Haditha so I can see the area up north that GoogleEarth dosen’t show.