[Jim_Curtis]

I found this idiotic story from "Islam Online" that was posted shortly after the incident. I think at least part of this incident was staged.

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US Soldiers Danced Around Dead Iraqi Civilians: Report
IslamOnline.net
Grinned US soldiers were dancing around bodies of Iraqi civilians killed during a US-led onslaught on the western city of Haditha, residents said on Monday, November29 . "I saw US soldiers laughing and dancing around the bodies of civilians killed in cold blood" a resident identified as Goma Al-Hadithi told the London-based Al-Quds Press news agency. Occupation troops have killed in cold blood children, women and elderly in their house-to-house pre-dawn raids, he charged...

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If they are making up stories about "dancing Marines" it stands to reason that they propped up some bodies and perhaps added some strategically placed bullets to make it look like a massacre. Bodies in praying position with bullets in the back of their heads? If Marines did do that they wouldn't have left the bodies in a state that would have shown executions occurred. Certainly they would know that the media would soon be at the scene and pictures taken.

Another thing I didn't realize was that Iraqi soldiers were with the Marines when the roadside bomb went off. Were Iraqi soldiers involved in the Haditha mission?

[kellynla]

Iraqi soldiers were with the Marines that day.
But I suspect that there is more likelihood that these people were killed by crossfire and/or by the "bad guys" before they "bugged out."