Probe shows Marines hid evidence in Haditha case.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

It's a wonder that our military has time to do anything other than cover-up their crimes.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060818/pl_nm/iraq_usa_inquiry_dc_1

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pentagon investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in Haditha has found possible concealment or destruction of evidence by U.S. Marines involved in the case, The New York Times reported on Friday.

Two Defense Department officials briefed on the investigation said the unit's logbook had been tampered with and an incriminating video taken by an aerial drone was not given to investigators until a top-ranking commander in
Iraq intervened, the newspaper reported.

According to the newspaper, the report faults officers in the Second Marine Division for not aggressively investigating the Haditha killings.

The defense officials were quoted as saying the report also found commanders had created a climate that minimized the importance of Iraqi lives, particularly in Haditha, where insurgent attacks were rampant, The New York Times said.

Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the new top Marine general in U.S. Central Command, is due to decide on whether charges are warranted, officials said this week.

[babylonsister]

1. This makes me ill. And there's a lot more where this came from.

If they aren't charged, I will be royally pissed. And that goes for every damn ugly, unconventional, non-Geneva Convention, 'event' these soldiers have been involved in.

[saigon68]

2. That's OK the whole point is Halliburton stock is up.

Who cares about the IslamoFascists anyway

After all they are only brown people who are subhumanoids </sarcasm>