Haditha: a new cloud in the fog of war
Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr
06/02/06
At the West Point commencement on May 27, President Bush said that 'each loss is heartbreaking.' Mr. Bush was talking about the 34 academy graduates killed in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past four years, and not about the two dozen Iraqi civilians apparently killed in their homes by US Marines last Nov. 19. The massacre was first reported by Time magazine in March, and, since then, the grisly details have begun to emerge, mainly from survivors. It seems clear now that in Haditha, northeast of Baghdad, a Marine lance corporal was killed by a roadside bomb. And his enraged buddies swept through three nearby houses shooting point-blank at residents, men, women, children, old, young. It didn't seem to matter...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0602/p09s02-cods.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
by Daniel Schorr
06/02/06
At the West Point commencement on May 27, President Bush said that 'each loss is heartbreaking.' Mr. Bush was talking about the 34 academy graduates killed in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past four years, and not about the two dozen Iraqi civilians apparently killed in their homes by US Marines last Nov. 19. The massacre was first reported by Time magazine in March, and, since then, the grisly details have begun to emerge, mainly from survivors. It seems clear now that in Haditha, northeast of Baghdad, a Marine lance corporal was killed by a roadside bomb. And his enraged buddies swept through three nearby houses shooting point-blank at residents, men, women, children, old, young. It didn't seem to matter...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0602/p09s02-cods.html
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha
rudkla - 5. Jun, 18:34
