(Thanks to Freeper Velveeta for the tip on the doctor.)
Murthawatch ping...
Tonight I was in the car at an unusual time and was listening to Michael Savage. Normally I think he is a nut job but tonight he was calling for raising money to get the best lawyers to defend these marines,
I really don't need that new dress I was looking at.....
Remember how Saddam's people would hide and store munitions in hospitals? Do we occupy it to keep 'insurgents' from hiding/being hidden there?
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Great job Sam.
>>>>He told Time the Marines claimed the victims had been killed by shrapnel, "But it was obvious to us that there were no organs slashed by shrapnel. The bullet wounds were very apparent. Most of the victims were shot in the chest and the head—from close range."<<<
Please note the 10 year old survivor, Iman (Eman) Walid (Waleed) has SHRAPNEL wounds on her left leg as she shows the reporter here:
http://emea-search.blinkx.com/tv/search.do?q=&channel_News_ITN=true&query=haditha&engine=blinkx
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This coupled with the reporter is great work. Hopefully this will be reflected in the official investigation.
***US Congressman John Murtha said on Wednesday that a Pentagon investigation into the deaths of civilians in Haditha, Iraq, last November will show that US Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood." **
When the investigation is over : If Murtha is found to be wrong we need to go to Capitol Hill with tar and feathers.
One Morning in HadithaU.S. Marines killed 15 Iraqi civilians in their homes last November. Was it self-defense, an accident or cold-blooded revenge?
A TIME exclusive
By TIM MCGIRK/ BAGHDAD
Mar. 27, 2006
The incident seemed like so many others from this war, the kind of tragedy that has become numbingly routine amid the daily reports of violence in Iraq. On the morning of Nov. 19, 2005, a roadside bomb struck a humvee carrying Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, on a road near Haditha, a restive town in western Iraq. The bomb killed Lance Corporal Miguel (T.J.) Terrazas, 20, from El Paso, Texas. The next day a Marine communiqué from Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi reported that Terrazas and 15 Iraqi civilians were killed by the blast and that "gunmen attacked the convoy with small-arms fire," prompting the Marines to return fire, killing eight insurgents and wounding one other...
Dr. Wahid, director of the local hospital in Haditha, who asked that his family name be withheld because, he says, he fears reprisals by U.S. troops, says the Marines brought 24 bodies to his hospital around midnight on Nov. 19. Wahid says the Marines claimed the victims had been killed by shrapnel from the roadside bomb. "But it was obvious to us that there were no organs slashed by shrapnel," Wahid says. "The bullet wounds were very apparent. Most of the victims were shot in the chest and the head--from close range."
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It will be a hot time when they get back the results of the autopsies and they are made public. Cause of death, shrapnel, bullets, time of death, calibre of bullets or type of shrapnel and composition of any explosives on the bodies of the dead.
Doesn't matter - To the MSM it could be true!
. . .from whom?
This sounds like 'propaganda'; just do not know whom it is serving. . .the anti-American U.N. and et als'. . .or just the 'enemy' at-large. . .
From Sweetness and Light Blog via LGF.
Haditha Reporter Was Jailed By US, Shares Name With Source
June 1st, 2006
Given the breathless coverage (actually only repetition of the same paltry facts) from our one party media about the civilian deaths in Haditha, I am surprised that we have heard nothing about the curious background of one of the first journalists to report the story, Ali Omar Abrahem al-Mashhadani, from the "restive town" of Ramadi.
It turns out Mr. al-Mashhadani might not have felt the kindliest intentions towards the US, having been imprisoned for five months mere weeks before his Haditha scoop.
Al-Mashhadani was detained because images found on his camera and because of his t"ies to the insurgents," according to US officials.
Indeed, al-Mashhadani has since been detained by the US again, for two weeks. In fact he was only released today.
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Let's just say this. When Murtha went on one of his rants about this, he mentioned a woman with a child during this incident being gunned down "in cold blood as they pleaded for their lives." That is what I like to call a Muslim lie. Since it is permissible to lie to the infidels, the Muslim not only lies, but lies spectacularly. In their hearts, most Muslims who hear it don't really evaluate its veracity. If pressed, they probably don't believe it, but it's just all part of the mix for them. I have been suspicious of this thing from the beginning. I worry that we've been depending too much on testimony from Iraqis.
Well .. I'm still not buying it!
There are plenty of "insurgents" within Iraq who would love to embarrass us and cause another uprising of "bring the troops home now" mantra.
The actions by those who "witnessed" the incident .. wreaks of paid informant. And .. I suppose by now all the bodies have been cremated in order to COVER the evidence that the people WERE NOT SHOT by our military weapons - but might have been shot by Iraqi weapons..?? Hmmmmm ..??
And .. how do we know that the room was not full of insurgents .. holding these people hostage and just waiting in ambush for our soldiers to come by and start returning fire, and the insurgents attacked all the people in the house to make it LOOK LIKE our soldiers did it.
Can anybody answer these questions ..??
Sorry .. I'm still not buying it!
We have the Murtha ("poor Marines were stressed by the mean Bush administration and snapped.") and the far-lefty/jihadist version (the Marines calmly killed the civilans "in cold blood" and "execution style").
The two versions are not very easy to reconcile.