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.
ABC News has obtained an interview with the sole survivor, 12-year-old Safa Younis. The interview was done by a local Iraqi journalism student about one week after the killings on Nov. 19, 2005.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2015052&page=1&WNT=true
January 2006 - Journalism student Taher Thabet, via an Iraqi human rights group, passes video of bodies and homes where they died to Time magazine.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/GEO037072.htm