General Says Senior Officers After Haditha Killings Would "Have To Know This Thing Stunk"...

It will be no different than the U.S. raid in Ishaqi, The outcome will be no different at all. No other words for it but OBSCENE


New York Times DAVID S. CLOUD and ERIC SCHMITT June 3, 2006 at 09:37 AM
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Marine commanders in Iraq learned within two days of the killings in Haditha last November that Iraqi civilians had died from gunfire, not a roadside bomb as initially reported, but the officers involved saw no reason to investigate further, according to a senior Marine officer.

The commanders have told investigators they had not viewed as unusual, in a combat environment, the discrepancies that emerged almost immediately in accounts about how the two dozen Iraqis died, and that they had no information at the time suggesting that any civilians had been killed deliberately.

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