The eight were among five men ordered from a car and shot to death and four men killed in a home cleared by Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, said Gittins, who is representing Capt. Randy Stone at a pretrial hearing at Camp Pendleton.
So four of the five men in the car were "insurgents" aka terrorists - sounds like a pretty pertinent fact!
Thank you for posting this!
I’m not surprised that it all leads back to the Lefties. They will do anything to harm our troops, country, and president. They are the enemy within.
Prayers for the acquittal of all the Marines in this case!
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(Do you have a ping list on the Haditha case?)
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A 12-year old survivor of the alleged massacre of innocent civilians by U.S. Marines patrolling Haditha has admitted she had prior knowledge of the plot to detonate an IED as their convoy was passing by her house on the morning of Nov. 19, 2005.
In a CNN interview broadcast Wednesday, Safa Younis - who says eight members of her family were killed by U.S. troops - recalled that she was getting ready for school as the Marine Humvee approached. "I was planning to go to school. I was about to go out of bed. I knew the bomb would explode so I covered my ears," the youngster said, according to a CNN translator.
"The bomb [then] exploded," she explained. "The bomb struck an armored vehicle. I don't know if it was a Humvee or an armored vehicle. When the bomb exploded, they came straight to my house."
WOW!!! So it turns out that the five men who raced up in the car were apparently enemy combatants after all!
This information needs to be verified and the whole bogus case thrown out ASAP.
Then I’d like to urinate on the scumbags who mounted this prosecution.
Thank you for posting this! There was a good discussion on this topic at this thread, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832789/posts
Glad to see it’s getting some coverage.
And the journalist who gave life to this travesty should be sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor on bread and water in one of those bloodstained houses. With a 24-hour webcam broadcasting it to CNN around the world. Forever.
I’m not familiar with the workings of a military court-whether the defense can call witness’, but that being said-I would love to see the defendant’s attorney call none other than the big wind bag himself-John Murtha to testify as to what and who were his sources of information-”what did he know, and when did he know it”.
Looks like the only court martials in this travesty are going to be in the prosecution’s office. Stooges for Turda.
Pray for W and Our Marines
Not that that legally should make a huge difference. The question is not whether the Haditha Marines were right in considering the Iraqis in the car or in the home to be insurgents. Instead, the question is whether the Marines reasonably perceived them to be a threat. It's a lower standard, and one which the defense would do well to exploit. It's just not a good idea to get caught up in arguments about whether or not the victims actually were insurgents, since it's unnecessary and will inevitably result only in arguments of "are so!" and "are not!"