Attorneys for Marine in Haditha killings ask for leak probe (AP)

[Eugene]

Attorneys for Marine in Haditha killings ask for leak probe

ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:28 p.m. January 15, 2007

WASHINGTON – Attorneys for a Marine charged in the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha
want the U.S. military to look into the leak of an investigative report to the news media.

The Washington Post published photos and information from the investigative file this month
that had not previously been made public, one showing five Iraqis sprawled near a taxi.

“This leak was inexcusable and unethical and very clearly presents a publicly unfavorable
portrait of our client,” lawyers for Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich wrote.

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The lawyers asked Marine Lt. Gen. James Mattis to have the Naval Criminal Investigative
Service find out who leaked the investigative report to the newspaper.

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Full article: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20070115-1328-haditha-leak.html

Related:
New Details Emerge in Iraq Slayings Case - AP
US marines killed Iraqis one by one in Haditha: report - AFP

[acmavm]

1. They murdered 24 people. One guy killed five in cold blood.

Life in prison is a light sentence for these guys.

[seemslikeadream]

2. Good thing for them the editors have decided

most of the photos are way too obscene for us to see and have censored them. Bad thing for the American public we can't see the extent of their war crimes.





http://allspinzone.com/wp/2007/01/08/when-the-media-gags-itself

By making the decision not to publish the photographs from Haditha, the Washington Post editors are no better than the Holocaust deniers that recently met in Tehran. More importantly, if photographic evidence didn’t exist of the Holocaust (or was held back, or destroyed), it would be so much easier for the deniers to credibly make their case that the Holocaust didn’t happen. In fact, history could easily be rewritten.

It’s time for the Washington Post editors to make a decision. By holding back these images of atrocities committed in the name of the American people, the Post editors allow the atrocities to continue. This is particularly true in a week which decisions are going to be announced that will define U.S. involvement in Iraq for at least the rest of George Bush’s term in office.

If you run a blog, I humbly ask that you bring this story to the attention of your readers, and that you ask your readers to contact the ombudsman at the Washington Post:

Deborah Howell
202-334-7582
[e-mail]

We deserve the truth. We can handle the truth. We must know the truth in order to make informed decisions going forward.



http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/global-evidence-hunt-uncovers-horrific-images/2007/01/07/1168104865104.html

Several marines took photos on November 19, 2005, some of them as part of an intelligence-gathering operation and some in order to record what had happened to the Humvee that was destroyed by a massive roadside bomb, killing Corporal Miguel "T. J." Terrazas.

The photographs of the bomb crater and the shredded vehicle show the power of the explosion that first set the Haditha incident in motion.

Among the images, there is a young boy with a helicopter on the front of his pyjamas, slumped over, his face and head covered in blood. There is a mother lying on a bed, arms splayed, the bodies of three young children huddled against her right side.

There are men with gaping head wounds, and a woman and a child hunkered down on their knees, their hands frozen around their faces as if permanently bracing for an attack.

The images are contained in thousands of pages of NCIS investigative documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Post editors decided that most of the images were too graphic to publish in the newspaper.