Comparing apples to apples (the leaked NCIS report and the final charges), is it a reasonable inference that the gov't believes that at least two insurgents were killed in Haditha? (The two shot by Mendoza and Salinas?)
I'm not saying this means that two, and only two, insurgents were killed that day. What I'm getting at is that the media never reports a single insurgent death in Haditha. And that at least gives us something to work with. Especially if we want to blog in response to 60 Minutes claiming that 24 civilians were killed in Haditha.
What do you think?
BINGO! this is our angle I think. Insurgents died that day; Insurgents planted the IED; Insurgents then fired at the Marines. I think everyone has even forgot that someone else besides the Marines were shooting.