Haditha: "appears to be outright murder"

[katty]

excerpt: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/052806A.shtml

Haditha is not the only case pending: On Wednesday, the military announced an investigation into allegations that Marines killed a civilian April 26 near Fallujah. The statement gave no further details except that "several service members" had been sent back to the United States "pending the results of the criminal investigation."

Last July, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, Samir al-Sumaidaie, accused the Marines of killing his 21-year-old cousin in cold blood during a search of his family's home in Haditha, a city of about 90,000 people along the Euphrates River 140 miles northwest of Baghdad.

The military ordered a criminal investigation but the results have not been announced.

Together, the cases present the most serious challenge to U.S. handling of the Iraq war since the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, which Bush cited Thursday as "the biggest mistake that's happened so far, at least from our country's involvement in Iraq."

"What happened at Haditha appears to be outright murder," said Marc Garlasco of Human Rights Watch. "It has the potential to blow up in the U.S. military's face."

He said that "the Haditha massacre will go down as Iraq's My Lai," a reference to the Vietnam War incident in which American soldiers slaughtered up to 500 civilians in 1968.

[Virginia Dare]

1. It has the potential to blow up in the military's face...

what about the Chimp Administration's face? This was HIS war, it is being waged the way HE wants it to be. This lands squarely on HIS lap.

[katty]

3. indeed it does, add this to Abu Gharib, Gitmo,torture rendition...

[infogirl]

2. Are they killing civilians because

they want to get sent the hell out of there? Even if if means a trial when they get home and loss of careet?:shrug: