by Curt | Jun 18, 2008 | Haditha Marines
I’ve been extremely tardy in announcing that the 7th Haditha Marine has had his charges dropped. And then there was one. Saying a general overseeing the case had been influenced by an investigator, a military judge today dismissed charges against Lt. Col....
by Curt | Jun 4, 2008 | Haditha Marines
One more Marine exonerated in the Haditha case: A Marine intelligence officer has been acquitted of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqi men, women and children. A jury of seven officers delivered the verdict Wednesday in favor of 1st Lt....
by Kit Lange | May 30, 2008 | Haditha Marines
ANN ARBOR, MI – Military prosecutors are expected to call as their witness General James N. Mattis, a highly respected Marine officer and one of only a handful of four-star Marine generals, to testify in the court-martial hearing against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani on June...
by Curt | Mar 28, 2008 | Haditha Marines
Still waiting for Murtha’s apology and censure in the house: Military prosecutors dropped all charges on Friday against a U.S. Marine accused of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault in the 2005 shooting deaths of two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians at...
by Wordsmith | Feb 17, 2008 | Haditha Marines, MSM Bias, The Iraqi War
Haditha in my judgment is a metaphor for how the press unconsciously, being in opposition to the war, will take an incident and simply by reiterating it and reiterating it and reiterating it build it into something that it wasn’t. – Bing West, former Marine,...
by Curt | Dec 19, 2007 | Haditha Marines
Good news, the coward Murtha may have to be sworn in and testify:The defense for a Marine accused in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians said Wednesday it wants to depose a Pennsylvania congressman to determine whether a general told him that the accused and his squad...
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