Military Expected to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians

Military Expected to Report Marines Killed Iraqi Civilians

By THOM SHANKER, ERIC SCHMITT and RICHARD A. OPPEL JR.
Published: May 26, 2006

WASHINGTON, May 25 — A military investigation into the deaths of two dozen Iraqis last November is expected to find that a small number of marines in western Iraq carried out extensive, unprovoked killings of civilians, Congressional, military and Pentagon officials said Thursday.

Two lawyers involved in discussions about individual marines' defenses said they thought the investigation could result in charges of murder, a capital offense. That possibility and the emerging details of the killings have raised fears that the incident could be the gravest case involving misconduct by American ground forces in Iraq.

Officials briefed on preliminary results of the inquiry said the civilians killed at Haditha, a lawless, insurgent-plagued city deep in Sunni-dominated Anbar Province, did not die from a makeshift bomb, as the military first reported, or in cross-fire between marines and attackers, as was later announced. A separate inquiry has begun to find whether the events were deliberately covered up.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/world/middleeast/26haditha.html?ex=1306296000&en=73b91e4388971ba0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Saying anyone who accused our troops of this behavior are traitors to our country.

Evidently he doesn't remember Calley. When we put our troops in insane conditions using insane reasoning, we end up with insane results. It twists the minds of our troops,therefore, their actions.

like our troops are in Bush's war, these dudes didn't awake on3e day and say yaaaawnnn... I think I'll kill a couple dozen innocent people...fu*k it!! The US trained our military to kill with no mention of, maybe just having a bad or different kind of day.

How can anyone in these room haven't the slightest notion of what our troops feel/experience?? you can';t and you can't judge them either! but that's my opinion.