Posted on 05/30/2006 10:13:00 AM PDT by pissant
WASHINGTON - Military investigators piecing together what happened in the Iraqi town of Al-Hadithah on Nov. 19, 2005 -- when Marines allegedly killed two dozen civilians -- have access to video shot by a pilotless aircraft that was circling overhead for at least part of that day, military defense attorneys familiar with the case said in interviews.
It is unclear whether the video obtained from that day's flight captured the violence, said the attorneys, who have consulted with Marines who were there. One attorney said investigators have reviewed surveillance footage taken hours after the shootings, which showed the Marines returning to the town to remove the bodies of the Iraqis.
Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said charges will be issued if the evidence merits it. For now, ``it would be premature for me to judge'' the outcome of the two U.S. military investigations, Pace said on CBS's ``The Early Show.''
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That was some entertaining intercourse you guys had there. I needed a laugh.
This "cold blooded murder" charge is inconceivable to me. I can't even come close to believing it. If it proves false, Murtha should be recalled.
Seems to me Coop is doing the honorable thing here by strongly defending our Marines. I hope he is vidicated.
Time broke the story. The story's got legs of it's own w/o Murtha. Murtha's irrelevant. Until Jan '06 the Marines insisted these families were killed by the roadside bomb. Until Time presented the results of their own investigation to to Colonel Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, the Marines claimed the families were killed by a roadside bomb. That resulted in a ahort probe which resulted in a change of stories by the Marines. They revised the story to- the Marines came under attack from the direction of the houses. It was determined that the families were actually killed by gunfire and were collateral damage. The Marines paid some wrongful death and injury money for all in the first 2 houses.
No firearms were found in the houses and pics of the outside show no evidence of a firefight. The firefight was onesided and occured inside both houses, not outside. That's a fact. The Marines after changing their story once already, claimed that after the first house was raided, they were placed under attack from the 2nd house. No firearms were found in the 2nd house. A man and a woman carrying a baby ran from the 2nd house. The man was shot in the back. The woman with the baby got away. Why would an unarmed man and a woman carrying a baby run from a house, leaving the other kids in there, unless they were terrified?
The real firefight occured 2 blks away, later in the day and Harriers were involved.
"This is not just a story about what happened, its a story about jumping the gun, innocence until proven guilty, quagmires, and the whole enchilada in Iraq"
The Marines would still be claiming they died in the explosion if Time hadn't looked into this. There'd also be no NCIS investigation either if they didn't push for answers after the first probe.
"Sounds to me the jihadis are overplaying their hand. "
Looks to me like some Marines falsified their field reports!
Here's the first Time article from 3/19/06. Here's the second, 5/28/06.
And you believe Time is fully truthful? When did this phenom start?
Agreed
I watched the video interview of her on ABC news.
God forgive me if I'm wrong, but as the mom of 2 girls, my initial impression was that this girl was not telling the truth.
Which version did she tell ABC?
Yeah, and at the same time maybe he can hand him the silk-lined box with his balls in it too.
The MSM insurgency (CBS News heading the pack) are wringing their hands, not with concern but with glee, that they may have a modern-day My Lai to report.
Dozier's reporting history at CBS, from what I have been able to read (via Google) today is typical CBS negative reporting. Sad that she was injured; but sadder that she reports the way she does/did.
CBS has been a cut above in the false reporting dept. for quite some time. And they have very stiff competition.
Kids 12 and under - well, I can see how they might think those are exactly the same thing, and feel somehow righteously vindicated by doing the latter in an effort to point up flaws in the former.
So, yeah, I'm sticking with 12.
No one wants your facts here, Louie.
Yep, the Japs prefered to behead captives, kill their own and hari kari themselves- just like the Jihadi.
Time didn't "break" the story, the story was fed to Time via a human rights group and by journalism student named Taher Thabet.
You ought to know better than to post anything here that conflicts with the speculation. Actual information from a news source is not relevant.
Naval investigators didn't begin to look at the incident until TIME broke the story.
Time broke the story. Time quized the Marines, got the answers they did and published them. The human rights group did no more than to alert them.
An obscure Trading Places reference, nice touch.
For the ABC video, the version is void of an exact description...just that she hid.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2015052&page=1&WNT=true
The marines "knocked on the door".
Doesn't make sense.
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