Posted on 06/05/2006 1:36:34 AM PDT by Sam Hill
Great work Velveeta, it's one thing to read all these articles but quite another to put them all together and come up with facts such as this.
Prayers to the family of Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, 20, for having to endure the constant degradation of the Marine unit their son was a proud member of...
TIME magazine has turned into such a pathetic, gossipy, scrawling excuse for a news source...
"TIME magazine has turned into such a pathetic, gossipy, scrawling excuse for a news source..."
Yes.
That happened about thirty years ago.
Thank you.
In the course of his reporting, he obtained a copy of Thabet's VCD. There was plenty in the grisly images to raise suspicions, including the U.S.-issued body bags into which the victims were zipped and the scattering of shells that appeared to have come from Marine rifles.Since we already know that Marines were sent in to remove the bodies, I don't find it the least bit surprising that they would have used "U.S.-issued body bags".
I seriously doubt the certainty of anyone being able to tell the source of spent cartridges from viewing a video tape. Unless extreme close-up shots were made, one rifle cartridge will look pretty much like any other one.
McGirk and his co-reporter for this Haditha story, Aparisim Ghosh, claim to have superhuman abilities to see things in this videotape.
Check out this interview Ghosh did with the Communist propagandist, Amy Goodman on taxpayer supported Democracy Now:
Democracy Now! | Videotape Forces Pentagon to Investigate Claims U.S. Marines Shot Dead 15 Iraqi Civilians in Apparent Revenge Killings
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/21/1418210&mode=thread&tid=25
Ghosh claims to even be able to tell that no shots were exchanged because there were no bullet holes on the outside of the buildings.
If you've seen the stills from this video, you can see what a joke such a claim is.
But Ghosh (like McGirk) has his own agenda. And it has little to do with getting out the truth about this story.
I have seen a story about this that Time went out after this story. I sure wish I'd copied it. In essense, they did not simply 'obtain' a copy of the tape.
Read this article.
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