[pissant]

From the Time article, the only reference I could find to a mistake is this:

Emad Jawad Hamza, led an angry delegation of elders up to the Marine camp beside a dam on the Euphrates River. Hamza says, "The captain admitted that his men had made a mistake. He said that his men thought there were terrorists near the houses, and he didn't give any other reason."

That's some guy named Hamza talking, not the Captain.

[spunkets]

" That's some guy named Hamza talking, not the Captain."

Hamza's the mayor. You have 2 choices. Either the story he told Hamza, that it was a mistake is true, or not. McConnell told Maj. Watt and 3rd battalion intel the same thing.

[Sam Hill]

I cut it out of the AP article, just because I didn’t want to confuse the timeline point. But the article noted that Thaer Thabit al-Hadithi worked at the Haditha hospital under Dr. Walid Abdul-Hameed al-Obeidi, before he decided he wanted to become a journalist/human rights activist:

A native of the town, al-Hadithi was an administrator in the Haditha’s main hospital before he took leave to work with Hammurabi, which was set up 16 months ago.

Dr. Walid Abdul-Hameed al-Obeidi is the head of the Haditha hospital, where he serves at the pleasure of the terrorists.

He is the doctor who claims US soldiers kept him prisoner for a week, beat him up regularly and threatened his life.

He’s also behind the claim that all of the victims were shot at close range. And he probably signed the death certificates.

What a small world, huh?