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To: Sam Hill; kcvl

One other article that KCVL quoted on the other thread had some similarities to this case--the infamous "wedding party" which ultimately did turn out to be what we said it was.


45 posted on 06/05/2006 3:12:37 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: MizSterious

Hammurabi Human Rights Group, which cooperates with Human Rights Watch


A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,” says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker


When Thabet gave him a business card, which says he works for Hamurabi Human Rights, which produced the incriminating videotape, the Marine grew apologetic. “He told me that the men who killed my neighbors were not typical Marines,” Thabet recalls. “Even among the Marines, they are known as the 'Dirty Force.' Then he said, 'For myself, I don't think killing 15 Iraqis is a fair response for the death of one Marine.'”


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Time magazine acquired the tape through the Hammurabi Human Rights Group, which cooperates with Human Rights Watch. The magazine reported that the tape shows victims still in their pajamas and bullet-pocked walls spattered with blood.

http://tinyurl.com/nwzcp

Talal al-Zuhairi, who heads the Baghdad Center for Human Rights, said his organization feared that even if the military’s investigation implicated the Marines, they would not be punished severely enough, according to a March 22 report by the Associated Press.

According to the report, “this incident shows that the forces are committing, every now and then, operations that harm civilians,” al-Zuhairi said.


48 posted on 06/05/2006 3:28:40 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: MizSterious

Video shot by a Haditha journalism student corroborates residents’ accounts. The footage was turned over to the Hammurabi Human Rights Group, which in turn provided it to Reuters.



"On the new tape shot by an Iraqi journalism student and given to ABC News by the Hammurabi Human Rights Group in Iraq, Younis, soft-spoken, with rounded cheeks and a headscarf, begins by calmly telling the interviewer, "My name is Safa Younis. I'm 12 years old."

The interviewer asks, "What did the American soldiers do when they broke into the house?"


http://tinyurl.com/m9utk


49 posted on 06/05/2006 3:36:05 PM PDT by kcvl
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