Marines ponder if "shoot first" justified
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - Does a U.S. Marine serving in Iraq have the right to shoot first and ask questions later if hostile forces could be nearby?
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Description: An American Marine is shown on videotape shooting an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi man in a mosque in the city of Fallujah.
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A Marine colonel whose men are suspected of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha may not have done all he could to properly report and investigate the killings, a two-star general testified Friday.
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U.S. military authorities held preliminary hearings Friday to determine whether four Marines who had been charged with raping a Japanese woman last year should be court-martialed.
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KIRKUK, Iraq -- As he walked through the mud surrounding his temporary barracks, 1st Sgt. Ken Agueda carried an M-4 assault rifle without its essential lethal components: bullets. Earlier in the day, Agueda had turned in his ammunition -- cartridges, assorted grenades -- in preparation for his journey home after nearly 13 months in Iraq.
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By Jeffrey Gautreaux, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Dec. 9--Four Yuma Marines who allegedly struck and dragged a man with their vehicle in Mexicali in January were punished by the Marine Corps for traveling to Mexico without permission -- but they were not punished for allegedly injuring the man.
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Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman were charged Wednesday with premeditated murder in the shooting death of an Iraqi man who was pulled from his home and shot while U.S. troops hunted for insurgents. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
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CHICAGO -- U.S. Coast Guard vessels staging machine-gun target practice in the peaceable Great Lakes? George Heartwell does not like the idea, not one little bit. He questions the need, the risk and the appearance.
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OCEANSIDE, California  - A U.S. Marine who had admitted firing several rounds at an Iraqi grandfather after his unit kidnapped the man asked a military court on Thursday to withdraw his guilty plea.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., July 17 -- One of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 knew that only women and children were huddled in a back bedroom in a house there, but he opened the door and shot them anyway, a squadmate testified Tuesday.
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As Marines prepare for a military offensive,  their plan aims to establish rule of law peacefully with promise of reducing the insurgency.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - A U.S. Marine testified on Thursday he shot to death two unarmed Iraqi men in the town of Haditha and watched members of his squad kill more civilians after a roadside bomb ripped apart a fellow Marine in November 2005.
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A senior U.S. Marine Corps general  who said it was "fun to shoot some people" should have chosen  his words more carefully but will not be disciplined, military  officials said on Thursday.
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He was in the firefights of Fallujah. He saw gaps in America's arsenal that he believes can only be filled when America's elite puts its sons on the battlefield. A plea for selective service.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Dec. 19--The old "shoot first, ask questions later" routine shouldn't have come up with the United States Coast Guard on the Great Lakes earlier this year.
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Video taken by a spy drone over Haditha on the day in 2005 that U.S. Marines allegedly murdered 24 civilians appears to buttress defense arguments that the Marines s were following rules of engagement, a former military judge says. The video, obtained by CNN, is expected to be introduced as evidence.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A Marine testified yesterday that he saw a roomful of frightened women and children moments before they were killed in Haditha, Iraq, but said he did not see who killed them.