There is more proof that the massacre in Iraq and deaths of 24 Iraqi citizens in Iraq wasn't the result of a roadside bomb as reported. More evidence is leading to a horrible war crime that has taken place.
A military investigator uncovered evidence in February and March that contradicted repeated claims by marines that Iraqi civilians killed in Haditha last November were victims of a roadside bomb, according to a senior military official in Iraq.
Among the pieces of evidence that conflicted with the marines' story were death certificates that showed all the Iraqi victims had gunshot wounds, mostly to the head and chest, the official said.
The investigation, which was led by Col. Gregory Watt, an Army officer in Baghdad, also raised questions about whether the marines followed established rules for identifying hostile threats when they assaulted houses near the site of a bomb attack, which killed a fellow marine.
The three-week inquiry was the first official investigation into an episode that was first uncovered by Time magazine in January and that American military officials now say appears to have been an unprovoked attack by the marines that killed 24 Iraqi civilians. The results of Colonel Watt's investigation, which began on Feb. 14, have not previously been disclosed.
Tags: [Files Contradict Account of Raid in Iraq], [war crime], [Haditha], [unprovoked attack by the marines that killed 24 Iraqi civilians], [Iraq]
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