3 Marine Officers Censured in Haditha Case
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A Marine Corps two-star general and two Marine colonels have received administrative punishments for the actions they took or failed to take after the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in late 2005, the Marine Corps announced yesterday.
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SAN DIEGO -- The leader of a battalion involved in the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha should face a court-martial for dereliction of duty, the investigating officer recommended in a report obtained yesterday by the Associated Press.
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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 government's case against a Marine accused of fatally shooting Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha lacks sufficient evidence to go to a court-martial and should be dropped, a hearing officer determined.
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A staff sergeant will face a court-martial on reduced charges stemming from the deaths of 24 Iraqis in the town of Haditha in 2005, the Marine Corps announced Monday.
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A Marine accused of murdering Iraqi civilians, including children, in the town of Haditha should have all charges dropped against him because of weak evidence, an investigating officer recommended on Thursday.
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The Marine Corps has dropped charges against the commander of the Marine company involved in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif  - A U.S. Marine assigned to move the bodies of civilians who died in Haditha told a military court by videotape on Wednesday that he assumed the dead Iraqis at the grim scene were mistakenly killed rather than massacred.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., July 18 -- Two investigators who interviewed Marines accused of killing unarmed families in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005 told a military court that one of the men realized that he was targeting women and children but still proceeded to shoot them.
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SAN DIEGO, July 16 -- A Marine charged with murdering two Iraqi girls and killing other civilians in the town of Haditha believed he was following procedure by confronting a threat with deadly force, his attorney said Monday at the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing.
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Three Marines will face courts-martial in the death of an Iraqi man near Hamdaniya in April, the Marine Corps said Monday.
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A U.S. Marine company commander who led the unit that killed as many as 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, has had all criminal charges against him dismissed nearly two years after the shootings occurred.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., Dec. 31 -- The Marine accused of leading his unit in killing 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 will be charged with voluntary manslaughter and other counts, but more serious charges of unpremeditated murder were dismissed, officials said Monday.
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A major general and two senior officers have been disciplined for their roles in investigating the deaths two years ago of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the Marine Corps said.
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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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HADITHA, Iraq  - One Marine was killed and three servicemen were missing after a U.S. helicopter with 16 people on board made an emergency landing in a lake in western Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.
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A top U.S. commander completed a review Friday of an investigation into an alleged cover-up in the Haditha case, and a military official said it pointed to errors in the reporting of initial allegations after the killings.