‘Kill everybody’

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‘Squad leader shot unarmed men at Haditha’
(Reuters)

1 September 2007

CAMP PENDLETON, California - The US Marine sergeant accused of leading a 2005 massacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha gunned down five unarmed men who were standing next to a car after a roadside bombing, a Marine from his squad told a military court on Friday.

Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz also testified that, about a week before the incident at Haditha, another bombing prompted Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to say the squad should “kill everybody in the vicinity” if they were hit again. snip

Dela Cruz, granted immunity from prosecution in the case after murder charges against him were dismissed in April, told the court that after the bomb exploded under a Humvee in their four-vehicle convoy he saw the five Iraqi men standing near a white car across the street.

In a matter of seconds one of the men dropped dead on the ground, Dela Cruz said, and he looked around to see Wuterich kneeling and firing on the group. By the time he reached the white car, Dela Cruz said, all of the Iraqis had been killed.

‘Kill everybody’

“They were in a pile, sir, laying dead, sir,” said Dela Cruz, whose right forearm is tattooed with the Grim Reaper and his left with the Marine eagle, globe and anchor emblem.

Dela Cruz said he then opened fire on the men “to make sure” they were dead and Wuterich walked among the bodies, firing shots into each.

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1. and the rest of the squad?

did they come home to nightmares? To everyone standing around being the enemy. What happened to the rest of the squad?