Four Marines to Face Lesser Charges After Two-Year Inquiry Into Iraqi Killings
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 4, 2008; Page A05
After a two-year investigation into the killings of up to 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, the Marine Corps has decided that none of the Marines involved in the incident will be charged with murder. Instead, two enlisted Marines and two Marine officers will face trial in coming months for the killings and for failing to investigate them.
The most serious charges have been leveled against Marine Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, who is scheduled to be arraigned on charges of voluntary manslaughter in California next week, the last step before the case officially moves to trial.
Initially called a massacre by Iraqi residents of Haditha
and later characterized as coldblooded murder by a U.S. congressman, the case has turned not on an alleged rampage but on a far more complex analysis of how U.S. troops fight an insurgency in the midst of a population they seek to protect.~SNIP~
Public attention to the Haditha case increased in the spring of 2006 when Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) said after briefings from military officials that the Marines had killed civilians "in cold blood."
Where's the apology, "MY LAI" MURTHA????
Where's the apology, TIME "MASSACRE" MAGAZINE AND TIM MCGIRK???
Where's the SCREAMING above the fold headline, WaPo?
May you all have as many sleepless nights as our Marines and their families have had.
May God bless these Marines and all our troops.
Sweetness and Light "In a better world Mr. Murtha would be on trial."
We can hope, can't we?
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