Do you remember at the very beginning of this thing that the officer in charge refused to comment on the nationality of the soldiers involved the initial statements? I was very puzzled by that. Are they perhaps Iraqi soldiers, some of whom have proved to be less than loyal? Does anybody else recall this statement?
Also, hadn't the main accused, Green, already been sent back to the states or removed from the military at the time the story came out (supposedly three months after the event)? Would it be tempting to provide a story about somebody you knew wasn't going to be around anyway? And certainly if you had little knowledge of how the US military functioned, you might think it wouldn't be possible for them to locate him.
Finally, I have been puzzled by many of the details, but in particular I wonder how he could simply have thrown away his AK47. Don't soldiers have to account for their weapons in some way? Or do they just come back from patrol, shrug, and say "ooops, sorry, I lost it."
In an effort to rehabilitate the story the insurgent informants got to the "newsies" and said, quite specifically, "the AK 47 was there at the house".