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All charges against the highest-ranking officer in the political circus known as the Haditha trial have been dropped. And get a load of how Reuters describes it: LOS ANGELES, June 17 (Reuters) - A military judge on Tuesday dismissed the case against the highest-ranking U.S. Marine charged in the ...
The most ludicrous politically-motivated prosecution of US soldiers in the nation’s history continues to collapse, as 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson is acquitted in the Haditha case: Marine acquitted in Haditha killing cover-up case. CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that ...
Defend Our Marines points out a Marine Corps intelligence summary on the Haditha murder inquiry, alleging that the incident was a deliberate scheme by Al Qaeda terrorists to demonize the Marines: Al Qaeda In Haditha: The Battle the Media Ignored. October 6, 2007 – Buried in the mountain of ...
The presiding officer in the Haditha case has now recommended that all murder charges be dropped against the last Marine on trial—but says he should be charged with negligent homicide instead. CAMP PENDLETON — A Marine Corps official has recommended that murder charges be dismissed against a Camp Pendleton ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
Jack Murtha is confronted by Jason Mattera of the Young America’s Foundation.
At Hot Air: Rep. Murtha’s office hangs up when asked about the Haditha Marines.
All charges have been dropped against two of the Marines in the Haditha case. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine general dropped all charges on Thursday against two Marines in the shooting deaths of 24 civilians in Haditha, scene of what Iraqi witnesses said was a massacre by American ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
A hearing officer in the trial of one of the Marines accused of murder in Haditha has recommended that the case be dropped. SAN DIEGO (AP) - The government’s case against a Marine accused of fatally shooting Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha lacks sufficient evidence to go to ...
LGF, Iraq, Haditha, War Crimes, Marines
The “Haditha massacre” story continues unraveling: Marine Says Rules Were Followed. A sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident in Haditha, Iraq, that left as many as 24 civilians dead said his unit did not intentionally target any civilians, followed military rules of engagement and never tried ...
Clarice Feldman at The American Thinker (with assistance from Sweetness & Light) has put together a narrative report of what’s known so far about the Haditha incident—and the story seems to be unraveling at the edges: Haditha: Is McGirk the New Mary Mapes? And here’s more: US father visiting Haditha ...
Victor Davis Hanson on Haditha: Vietnam, After All? As with the formulaic type scenes of Homeric epic, there now arises a sense of familiarity with the current outcries over Haditha. We do not really know yet what happened in that terrorist-infected hellhole, but it seems not to matter. Those who ...
Here’s a very interesting piece on Haditha at the Hawaii Reporter by Andrew Walden: Haditha: Reasonable Doubt. (Hat tip: Blackfive.) Only now—two and a half months after the story broke in the March 19 issue of Time magazine— are the voices of soldiers who question the charges beginning to be ...
Mark Steyn tries valiantly to provide some perspective amid the media feeding frenzy over the alleged massacre at Haditha: Events at Haditha don’t change need for victory. For three years, coalition forces in Iraq behaved so well that a salivating Vietnam culture had to make do with the thinnest of ...
Sweetness & Light has an interesting look at the history of Reuters journalist Ali al-Mashhadani, responsible for some of the first reports on the Haditha incident, upon which he stumbled shortly after being released from five months in a US military prison. (And he was released today after another two ...
Embedded CNN reporter Arwa Damon witnessed the restraint of the Marines in Haditha many times: A reporter’s shock at the Haditha allegations. The Guardian’s “news blog,” meanwhile, in the course of an article that assumes the allegations to be true, smears LGF with a ridiculous mischaracterization of my first post ...
Allahpundit has a post packed with information about the alleged massacre at Haditha by US Marines: Haditha: Marine eyewitnesses come forward (Update: Audio and video of the attack?)
There are very few verified details yet, but if the basic outline of this story turns out to be true we’re in for a mainstream media festival of guilt that will make the Abu Ghraib story look like a Vanity Fair piece on Al Gore: Official: Iraq civilian deaths unjustified. ...