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  • Marine general: Special Forces unit should have stayed in Afghanistan after shooting

    11/30/2007 8:15:25 PM PST · by RedRover · 107 replies · 660+ views
    AP via the North County Times ^ | November 29, 2007 | LOLITA C. BALDOR
    WASHINGTON -- A Marine company involved in the shooting of civilians in Afghanistan last March responded appropriately to an ambush against them, and should not have been pulled out of the country, the commander of Marine Corps special forces said Thursday. Marine Maj. Gen. Dennis J. Hejlik, head of Marine Corps Special Operations Command, also told reporters that a legal tribunal investigating the incident has been postponed until mid-January at the request of one of the officers involved. "Obviously it was not my decision to bring the company out of theater," Hejlik said. "It was the theater commander's decision. I...