[RedRover]

I didn't see any reports about closing statements or about the testimony on Monday and Tuesday. I know Lucian Read testified for the defense but have no idea what he said. It's going to make writing our usual summary of testimony a real challenge!

[Girlene]

You're right. Lucian Read, the photographer, was supposed to testify. Do you know if he actually testified and was he a prosecution or defense witness?

Here's what he wrote shortly after the hullaballoo began in the media In Haditha

A snippet from his article.....All I knew when that patrol stepped off two days later was what I had been told--that an IED had killed my friend and then they had been fired on, that there had been fighting all over town that day, that a lot of insurgents and civilians had died in the fighting.

The two Iraqis who stepped out to speak with the patrol from the crowd of men at the house where the bodies had been returned to the families volunteered that insurgents lived and worked out of this neighborhood, said they were afraid of them. They asked the Marines to please come and stay here, stay in this neighborhood so that there would be no more fighting.