Posted on 06/03/2006 8:26:22 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
A 12-year old survivor of the alleged massacre of innocent civilians by U.S. Marines patrolling Haditha has admitted she had prior knowledge of the plot to detonate an IED as their convoy was passing by her house on the morning of Nov. 19, 2005.
In a CNN interview broadcast Wednesday, Safa Younis - who says eight members of her family were killed by U.S. troops - recalled that she was getting ready for school as the Marine Humvee approached.
"I was planning to go to school. I was about to go out of bed. I knew the bomb would explode so I covered my ears," the youngster said, according to a CNN translator.
"The bomb [then] exploded," she explained. "The bomb struck an armored vehicle. I don't know if it was a Humvee or an armored vehicle. When the bomb exploded, they came straight to my house."
Younis complained that after the bombing killed Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, his fellow Marines broke down the front door of her house.
"The American forces entered the house and started shooting with their guns. They killed my mother and my sister Nour. They killed her when she shot her in the head. She was only 15 years old. My other sister was shot with seven bullets in the head and she was only 10 years old."
The Haditha co-conspirator continued:
"And my brother Muhammad was hiding under the bed when the U.S. military hit him with the butt of the gun and the started shooting him under the bed. The U.S. military then shot me and I was showered in blood. We couldn't leave the house because the U.S. military surrounded the area with a large number of soldiers."
Younis said she survived by pretending to be dead.
But the "innocent" Haditha 12-year-old failed to give any further details about which other family members knew about the bomb plot. Or whether one of her relatives had detonated the blast.
<< they shot her brother 7 times in the head ... >>
Only flaw with that fine tale is that after shot one there was no more head!
If this guy "disposed" of the bodies, why do the relatives control them? I suspect he helped with the clean up, but this article indicates he was not present, and could not have witnessed the incident. IOW, he could know there were lots of bodies, but not a have any first hand information about what happened, or who killed the Iraqis whose bodies he "disposed of". Since the article indicates that he was ordered to take pictures and then to turn them over to the Navy, that doesn't sound like much of a cover up by the Marines who were there, as soon as the day after the incident.
I was there and can verify your statement. We never knew, until after the facts, who was who, and who wasn't. Always on guard and always watching was our motto, and I'm sure the Marines involved in this operation felt the same way. I cannot believe the Marine Corps General out in San Diego relieving his officers two months after the fact with his B.S. findings. Is it no wonder we are still tying our military's hands behind their backs with a$$kissers like that General? In my book, he should be relieved, not the Captains.
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sorry about that post #185 to the wrong recipient.
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