New Documents Suggest Military Gave Misleading Response On Haditha Killings To Avoid Enemy Propoganda

The New York Times PAUL von ZIELBAUER May 5, 2007 01:14 PM
Recently unclassified documents suggest that senior officers viewed the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in late 2005 as a potential public relations problem that required an immediate and misleading response to prevent insurgents from using it as propaganda against the American military effort.
"We knew the, you know, the strategic implications of being permanently present in Haditha and how badly the insurgents wanted us out of there," said Col. R. Gary Sokoloski, in a sworn statement to investigators in March 2006.
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