[freema]

Did ya’ll see this?

Russell said he can succeed where Irey failed because at the time of her campaign people did not know that one of the Marines who had been charged in the Haditha case was a man from the 12th Congressional District. Justin Sharatt, who grew up in Canonsburg, had been accused of premeditated murder but the charges were later dropped. Sharratt will be traveling with Russell on Monday.

State Republican Party communications director Mike Barley said the party does not know much about Russell yet, but is trying to set up a time to meet him.

“Obviously we have to look at everyone and vet them and choose the best candidate,” Barley said.

The party is actively seeking a nominee to run against Murtha, he said.

http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2007/11/17/news/news908.txt

[freema]

‘Pendleton 8’ (Hamdania NOT Haditha) Documentary in Production

By: MARK WALKER - Staff Writer
Friday, November 16, 2007

NORTH COUNTY — A New York filmmaker is in North County this week conducting interviews for a documentary about eight Camp Pendleton troops convicted this year of offenses arising out of the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi man.

Don Sikorski said Wednesday that his film, “Article 32,” will focus on the seven Marines and a Navy medical corpsman charged in the death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a retired Iraqi policeman who was kidnapped from his home in the village of Hamdania and shot to death.

The April 26, 2006, incident led to murder charges against all eight men. Seven were convicted of lesser offenses.

After being incarcerated for several months, all are now free except for the squad leader, Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins, who was convicted by a military jury at Camp Pendleton of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

See the trailer here:
http://www.article32film.com/
(All are referred to as soldiers!)

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/11/17/military/3_00_5811_16_07.txt

[Just A Nobody]

In Oct. 2005, from the House floor, Murtha called for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq. He later said some Marines had murdered Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

It was NOVEMBER 2005 and he later said the Marines had " killed innocent civilians in cold blood."

BTW, if Gleason is still PA-Chairman no viable candidate will ever be supported by the party there. If Gleason supports him, my guess would be he is indeed a carpetbagger.