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bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === US marines killed Iraqis one by one in Haditha <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070106/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryhaditha2_070106165446>AFP <http://www.uruknet.de/pic.php?f=haditha_investigation_dcwap101.jpg> haditha_investigation_dcwap101.jpg January 7, 2006 WASHINGTON (AFP) - An investigative report compiled by the US military reportedly indicates that US marines gunned down five unarmed Iraqis who stumbled onto the scene of a 2005 roadside bombing in Haditha, Iraq. Citing the document obtained by The Washington Post, the account said that Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the squad's leader, shot the men one by one after marines ordered them out of a white taxi in the moments following the explosion, which killed one marine and injured two others. Another marine fired rounds into their bodies as they lay on the ground, the paper said, citing the military report. "The taxi's five occupants exited the vehicle and according to US and Iraqi witnesses, were shot by Wuterich as they stood, unarmed, next to the vehicle approximately ten feet in front of him," The Post quotes the report by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as saying. One of the witnesses, Sergeant Asad Amer Mashoot, a 26-year-old Iraqi soldier who was in the marine convoy, told investigators he watched in horror as the four students and the taxi driver fell. "They didn't even try to run away," the report quotes him as saying. "We were afraid from marines and we saw them behaving like crazy. They were yelling and screaming." The shootings were the first in a series of violent reactions by marines on November 19, 2005 that left 24 Iraqi civilians dead, the paper said. The report, which relied on hundreds of interviews with marines, Iraqi soldiers and civilian survivors conducted months after the incident, provides evidence that the marines responded to the roadside bombing in ways that are difficult to reconcile with their rules of engagement. Four marines were charged with murder last month in connection with the civilian deaths in Haditha: Wuterich, Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz, Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt and Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum. Each faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070106/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryhaditha2_070106165446 === -muslim voice- ______________________________________ BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
