Haditha case prosecution has a problem
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It would also be a mistake to gloss over the point that incidents like Haditha happen because the enemy engage in the war crime of operating without an identifying uniform as required by the Geneva Conventions. If they were wearing uniforms instead of camouflaging themselves as civilians Marines would be very unlikely to kill civilians by mistake. (Hat tip to Larwyn.)
Dishonest editing of video by the enemy--who would have thought it? And who would have also thought that it would be embraced by an anti war media pushing its agenda? Neither of those things is at all surprising. What has been surprising is that Marine Corps prosecutors would be taken in by the ruse. I would like to see some specifics on the discrepancies that have turned up as a result of the intelligence officers report.Newsmax is reporting that an intelligence officer provided substantial exculpatory evidence in the Haditha case, evidence he says the NCIS sat on, evidence that supports the defendants’ version of the facts, and evidence which indicates the entire incident was an ambush which was being videotaped by our enemies who edited it and handed it over to anti-war activists to present the case in the worst possible way to our troops. If this is so, it would substantiate the belief of Steve Gilbert who early on was sceptical of the claims underlying this case. http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/06/haditha_is_mcgirk_the_new_mary.htmlIn a nutshell, the case exploded when an intelligence officer dropped a bombshell on prosecutors during a pre-hearing interview when he revealed the existence of exculpatory evidence that appears to have been obtained by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and withheld from the prosecutors. This officer, described by senior Marine Corps superiors as one of the best and most dedicated intelligence officers in the entire Marine Corps, was in possession of evidence which provided a minute-by-minute narrative of the entire day’s action — material which he had amassed while monitoring the day’s action in his capacity as the battalion’s intelligence officer. That material, he says, was also in the hands of the NCIS. Much of that evidence remains classified, but it includes videos of the entire day’s action, including airstrikes against insurgent safe houses. Also included was all of the radio traffic describing the ongoing action between the men on the ground and battalion headquarters, and proof that the Marines were aware that the insurgents conducting the ambush of the Kilo Company troops were videotaping the action — the same video that after editing ended up in the hands of a gullible anti-war correspondent for Time magazine.
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It would also be a mistake to gloss over the point that incidents like Haditha happen because the enemy engage in the war crime of operating without an identifying uniform as required by the Geneva Conventions. If they were wearing uniforms instead of camouflaging themselves as civilians Marines would be very unlikely to kill civilians by mistake. (Hat tip to Larwyn.)
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