21 March 2006

Massacre at Haditha?


The Beeb reports that the Pentagon is investigating an incident last November in which US Marines allegedly killed 15 Iraqi civilians.

The military's initial claim
that the civilians died in a roadside blast was disproved by an earlier
investigation.
Investigators will now ask if the civilians died in crossfire
or were targeted deliberately in a potential war crime.
Iraqis often accuse
US troops fighting insurgents of committing war crimes.
Their bodies were
riddled with bullets... there were blood spatters inside their homes
Bobby
Ghosh Time reporter
Local residents in Haditha say the marines went on the
rampage after one of their number was killed in a roadside blast and another two
were injured.
They say the soldiers began shooting dead the inhabitants of
nearby homes and others from the area.

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