Global evidence hunt uncovers horrific images

madeline_con

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Sun Jan-07-07 06:11 PM
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Global evidence hunt uncovers horrific images

Josh White, Washington
January 8, 2007

US MARINES took dozens of gruesome photographs of the 24 civilians who were killed in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.

The images, which investigators tracked down on several laptop computers and digital media drives — some in the US — provide visual evidence of a series of shootings outside a taxi and inside three homes that military criminal investigators have alleged were murders.

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"I decided that it was in my best interest to obtain the photos I had taken that night," Corporal Wright told investigators. "Even though there was no investigation at the time, I felt that the photographs would be evidence if anything came up in the future. In my opinion, the people that I photographed had been murdered."

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http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/global-evidence-hunt-uncovers-horrific-images/2007/01/07/1168104865104.html

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keta11

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Sun Jan-07-07 06:20 PM
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1. We Support the Troops!! n/t

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LynnTheDem

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Sun Jan-07-07 09:39 PM
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3. Yes. And fortunately not all troops are sick murderers.

Find a city of 150,000 in the USA where every person is good and kind and not a sick MFer.

The troops who did the Haditha massacre deserve due process. Nothing more, nothing less. imo.

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Miss Chybil

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Mon Jan-08-07 10:20 AM
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4. I'm with you. Some bad troops don't make all troops bad, just like some

Edited on Mon Jan-08-07 10:21 AM by Miss Chybil

bad Muslims don't make all Muslims bad.

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yardwork

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Mon Jan-08-07 11:17 AM
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7. While those who committed atrocities need to be brought to justice

they didn't commit these crimes in a vacuum. The invasion and occupation of Iraq led to these and other horrific events.

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bvar22

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Mon Jan-08-07 11:53 AM
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8. Poor leadership, improper training, lack of accountability, ...

...AND no screening of the troops ALL contribute to these sick occurrances.
The individuals who committed this war crime should be held accountable ALONG with their "Chain of Command".

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MasonJar

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Mon Jan-08-07 04:52 PM
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9. I just love that picture!

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eagler

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Tue Jan-09-07 04:06 PM
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10. Of course we know things never happened like this in Vietnam

Just ask the Swiftboat veterans.

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TacticalPeek

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Sun Jan-07-07 07:37 PM
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2. K & R

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BleedingHeartPatriot

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Mon Jan-08-07 10:47 AM
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5. The article is heartwrenching, the descriptions of the victims is horrific.

It sounds as if these troops stormed a neighborhood and killed any and all occupants of those homes.

Storming into the house, shooting everyone and then doing the same at the next house.

Women, children, men, it didn't matter.

:cry: MKJ

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formercia

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Mon Jan-08-07 11:12 AM
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6. It's important that the officers that failed

to properly investigate or attempted to prevent disclosure get their due process too. It's the system that is broken.

This is what happens when there is a breakdown in leadership.

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