Posted on 05/29/2006 6:12:03 PM PDT by Marli
Only hours after Iraqi civilians were killed, a second team of Marines was sent in to take the victims' bodies to a local morgue.
Lance Corp. Ryan Briones was among the Marines sent in to recover the bodies, and he told the Los Angeles Times he is still haunted by what he saw, including a young girl who was shot in the head.
"[The victims] ranged from little babies to adult males and females," Briones told the newspaper. "I can still smell the blood."
Briones says he and another Marine were told to photograph the bodies. Military officials say those photos — which they say show people shot at close range in the head and chest — clearly contradict initial reports that the civilians were killed by a roadside bomb.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
It's a wait and see but not for the media. Someone needs to remind ABC that their erroneous report on Hastert being under investigation was laughed at by ABC's own staffers.
Someone needs to remind Time Magazine that a judge determined Matt Cooper's papers can be sent to Libby's defense team because of discrepancies. (Credibility?)
The media needs to be watched and reminded constantly of their problems reporting on this story. They are want to be on the hunt on this. Hopefully, someone will make a big mistake.
Briones' best friend, Lance Cpl. Miguel "T.J." Terrazas, had been killed earlier that day by the roadside bomb. He was still grieving when he was sent in to clean up the bodies of the Iraqi civilians, his mother said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14690460.htm
This story, and especially the quote that you highlighted, is Stalin's "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" demonstrated at a working level.
The press is going to work this BS for all it's worth. I have no patience for people with no sense of history or proportion, and the press and their sycophants are historically illiterate boobs.
Such idiots are easily fooled. Knowhutahmean?
If two or more Marines in that unit testify that there were atrocities committed, than I will call for those Marines involved to be Court Marshalled. Until then..... They are INNOCENT
So why would a second team of Marines take photographs if they were in cover-up mode, Mr. Murtha?
And you sound like someone who wants to deny that something very serious happened here.
And lay off the "DU troll" nonsense. Somebody(s) lost control and may have killed 24 innocent civilians for no reason.
This incident is only now being investigated because it was hidden from the higher ups at the Pentagon for over three months.
If what is alleged happened, this is Abu Ghraib times ten.
Certainly not any crime, an eyewitness of several dead people... sure
I predict there will be a Lt. Calley coming out of this.
The way the article reads to me, this Marine didn't witness the event but rather the aftermath.
Lance Cpl. Briones told his mother he saw the bodies of 23 dead Iraqis.
Susie Briones got a panicked call that day from her son, who said he did not see the shootings but was told by his supervisors to go into the houses and remove the bodies. He brought along a digital camera that his mother had given him before he left for Iraq.
One of the bodies was a little girl who had been shot in the head, Susie Briones said.
"He had to carry that little girl's body," she said, "and her head was blown off and her brain splattered on his boots."
Briones' best friend, Lance Cpl. Miguel "T.J." Terrazas, had been killed earlier that day by the roadside bomb. He was still grieving when he was sent in to clean up the bodies of the Iraqi civilians, his mother said.
Ryan Briones told the Los Angeles Times that he'd been interrogated twice by Navy investigators while in Iraq. He turned over his digital camera but did not know what happened to it after that.
"They wanted to know if the bodies had been moved or tampered with," said Briones, who has not been interviewed by Navy investigators since he returned from Iraq in April
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On Monday, both Marines were back at Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, where base officials said several members of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division were being confined during the investigations.
Lt. Lawton King, a Camp Pendleton spokesman, declined to comment Monday, but another Marine there reflected on the damage the reports have done.
Nicholas Grey, a second lieutenant in the Marine Reserves based at Camp Pendleton, said the case will result in a loss of credibility for the Marines and increase Iraqi anger.
"It will make it a lot harder for the Marines who want to go through the streets," he said.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14690460.htm
Been around long? This is an old VC trick. They'd go into villages and wipe them out. Made it look just like the U.S. military did it. This IS like "another Vietnam." Not in Iraq. It's like "another Vietnam" right here in the good old U.S.of A. Jane Fonda must be smirking. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It was illegal for this little Jughead to talk about this to the press. Hopefully, if he really is in the Marines, they've carted his goatsmelling ass off to the brig.
You really summed up my feelings and made excellant points. thanks for the post.
Marli has been banned; troll.
The enemy likes to use civilians as cover for the attack they are about to launch. Then the turdbucket Murthas go nuts about the G'I's "attacking" civilians unprovoked. War is hell, ain't it Joe?
It's obvious that something very bad happened there, and that our troops offed some civilians. It's an anecdote - not the rulebook of the US military.
I contrast this situation with the willingness of the press to maintain the fiction of the "Religion Of Peace" for the last 5 years.
Put your hair out Sink, the facts are not out yet, don't be a tool for the left!
My Lai maszacre all over again. The MSM and leftwing will use it to demoralize US support for the war by arguing that our troops are too stretched out and stressed out by GWB that some of them finally snapped. It is not the troops fault, it is GWB'as fault for putting them into an unmangageable situation. Argument would be get the troops home before more will snap.
Yesterday there was a letter to the editor in the Washington Post by a Marine or soldier who was accused of murdering Iraqis. Once the investigation began and the facts came out, he was found innocent.
He reminded people in that letter that we don't have all the facts yet and that people should not jump to conclusions one way or the other.
So your post is right on target and I thank you for it.
This whole thing is getting curiouser and curiouser, BUT, when I saw that this article is an ABC NEWS source..
Well, we know how careful they are with facts, don't we??
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