They have the death penalty in iraq
- From: "Greg Preston" <survivor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:48:11 +0100
Lets see how just, how honourable, how moral the yanks REALLY are, If
evidence does point towards the massacre in Haditha, let the marines PROVE
their HONOUR and BRAVERY by facing trial in Iraq, whewre they face the death
penalty for murder. Naturally no one outside America expects the yanks to do
the right thing because they simply do not know the meaning of Honour (
Honor in their idiots version of English).
Whats the bet the accused are whipped out of Iraq PDQ.
Iraq to probe US massacre claims
Iraq will investigate allegations that US marines carried out a massacre of
civilians in Haditha in November, the country's prime minister has said.
Nouri Maliki told Reuters news agency there was "a limit to the acceptable
excuses" for civilian casualties.
The Pentagon is close to ending its own inquiries into the deaths, initially
attributed to a clash with militants.
Observers say the incident could deal a more serious blow to US standing
than the Abu Ghraib scandal.
It is not justifiable that a family is killed because someone is
fighting terrorists
Nouri Maliki
Iraqi prime minister
According to initial US military reports, 15 civilians and eight insurgents
died after a bomb killed a marine in Haditha, a militant stronghold in Anbar
Province.
The civilians were "victims of a wrong operation", Mr Maliki said in a
separate interview with the BBC.
"It is not justifiable that a family is killed because someone is fighting
terrorists."
Speaking to Reuters, he said his government was worried by "the increase in
'mistakes'" and would ask "for answers not only about Haditha but about any
operation... in which killing happened by mistake".
"We will hold those who did it responsible," he added.
The BBC's Justin Webb reports from Washington that enough material has now
been leaked to the US media about events in Haditha to suggest to many
Americans that allegations of a massacre are very serious and may well be
true.
'Cold blood'
US investigators are looking at both the actual events in Haditha on 19
November and an alleged cover-up by troops.
The military said at the time that the civilians were killed as a result of
either the bomb or a gun battle which erupted afterwards, in which the
militants were reportedly killed.
But reports from Iraqi witnesses and in the US media allege that marines
went on a rampage.
According to the Wall St Journal, there is evidence that marines killed
civilians, including women and children, without provocation.
Several marines are likely to be charged with murder and others with
attempting to cover up the incident, the newspaper said, quoting civilian
and military officials close to the investigations.
One of the marines in Haditha that day, Lance Cpl Roel Ryan Briones of
Hanford, California, told the Los Angeles Times he had taken photos and
carried bodies out of homes as part of a clean-up crew:
"They ranged from little babies to adult males and females. I'll never be
able to get that out of my head. I can still smell the blood."
Caution plea
Jim Murtha, a Democratic Congressman and former marine, has said he believes
civilians in Haditha were murdered and the incident was covered up.
"They killed innocent civilians in cold blood and that's what the report is
going to tell," he said.
"It is as bad as Abu Ghraib, if not worse," he told CNN television.
Gen Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and chief military
adviser to the US president, said on Monday it would be premature for him to
judge the outcome of the investigations.
"If the allegations as they are being portrayed in the newspapers turn out
to be valid, then of course there'll be charges," he said.
"We'll get to the bottom of the investigation and take the appropriate
action."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/5030960.stm
Published: 2006/05/30 17:30:37 GMT
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