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
This doctor was not conducting an autopsy, was he?