In the end, that they were killed, and that two of those involved said they participated and identified the killer will matter much more than a few hours' difference on an affidavit.
Other interesting tidbits from the Mayor of Mahmudiya via Reuters, July 3:
"They were found killed and burnt on the morning of March 12," Fadhil said, just after he met a U.S. military officer at his municipal office in the small town south of Baghdad.
Hospital director Dawood al-Taie said his morgue received four burned bodies that day and showed death certificates made out on March 13 for the four named as the victims by the mayor.
"Gunshot to the head and chest. Face unrecognisable due to burns," read the certificate for Abeer Qasim Hamza, who the mayor said was 16 when she died and had been raped.
Taie said he had no record that evidence of rape was found.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC343659.htm
Now supposedly, according to the Iraqi medic who arrived on the scene who testified yesteday ...
In the opening day of testimony in the military hearing in Baghdad to determine if there is enough evidence to hold a court-martial for five U.S. soldiers, the medic, whose name was withheld for security reasons, testified that he saw smoke when he arrived at the family's home in Mahmoudiya on the afternoon of March 12. Inside, on the floor of the living room, a 14-year-old girl lay dead on her back, her legs spread, her clothes torn off, her body burned from her waist to her head, a single bullet hole under her left eye, he said.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/07/MNG9SKCCJU1.DTL
The defense should call in the Janabi boys too, the guys that told our investigators and the press that they were the first ones on the scene. And one said her clothes were still on. Hmmmmm
You could be correct. But then if confessions were coerced, who knows. Barker's lawyer sure thinks so.
Look at post 13 and see what Barker told his commanding officer.
Speilman said he did not participate in rape or murder and passed a lie detector test.
Green plead not guilty.
I could be completely wrong about this, but methinks there is more to the story than what we've seen so far.
How do we even know they were "murdered"? If they were, what about the autopsies? There weren't any. It is disgusting how the military is handling these cases.