Murtha: Iraq civilian killings covered up
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The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.
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After being advised to open an inquiry into the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by Marines in the town of Haditha, witnesses say, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani responded with outrage, shouting "My men are not murderers!"
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MOSUL, Iraq : The bodies of what are believed to be nine murdered Iraqi soldiers were found in central Mosul as US and Iraqi forces patrolled the city in a continuing bid to flush out insurgents.
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A fire that destroyed the house of a soldier serving in Iraq was set to cover up the stabbing deaths of his wife, two sons and sister-in-law, police said. A neighbor was jailed on suspicion of homicide.
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Volunteers carry out one of Iraq's most somber chores: Burying the charred remains of men, women and children. The sheik who leads them says he doesn't need the military to tell him what's going on. "The streets are flowing with blood," he told CNN.
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As violence suddenly spikes in Baghdad and northern Iraq, the U.N. releases a new estimate of civilian fatalities
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Two Marines were severely traumatized when told to photograph the corpses of men, women and children after members of their unit allegedly killed as many as two dozen unarmed Iraqi civilians, their families said Monday.
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U.S. military officials say the   killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in   November appears to have been an unprovoked attack by U.S.   Marines, after an investigation found the victims died of   gunshot wounds, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Preliminary figures show that violent deaths in Iraq dropped substantially in August from record levels the previous month, Health Ministry officials said Thursday. Most of the recorded killings were of civilians.
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A Marine Corps sergeant under investigation in connection with the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha is accusing Rep. John P. Murtha of defaming him in public comments about the case.
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The U.S. military charged 12   servicemen this week with murdering Iraqis, signaling to some a   stepped-up Pentagon effort to investigate claims after an   alleged cover-up of a civilian massacre at Haditha.
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The mounting insurgency in Iraq has claimed the lives of more than 30 Iraqi civilians and security forces during the past two days.
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A former U.S. Marine staff sergeant testified at a hearing Monday that his unit killed at least 30 unarmed civilians in Iraq during the war in 2003 and that Marines routinely shot and killed wounded Iraqis.
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A FORMER US Marine said today his unit killed more than 30 innocent Iraqi civilians in just two days, in graphic testimony to a Canadian tribunal probing an asylum claim by a US Army deserter.
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Officials investigate after at least eight Iraqi civilians are reported killed by US private contractors.
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"Civilian deaths of all categories, less natural causes, have . . . declined considerably, by over 45 percent Iraq-wide since the height of the sectarian violence in December. . . . The level of civilian deaths is clearly still too high and continues to be of serious concern. . . . The overall...
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NAJAF, Iraq, Aug 27  - Iraqi police said Friday they found &quot;many&quot; bodies of dead civilians and police, including some who were executed and mutilated, at a religious court set up by rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf.