Iraq 06-01-06


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A MEMBER of the US Marines unit accused of murdering 24 unarmed Iraqis said yesterday that his colleagues “were blinded by hate” and lost control before the massacre.

Corporal James Crossan, who was injured in the roadside bomb attack that appears to have triggered the incident, was speaking just before President Bush said that he was troubled by the reports. “If laws were broken there will be punishment,” he said.

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Victim of America...

Victim of America...

By Mrs. Le Thi Dieu

In 1965 I was arrested by the Americans and brought to Hoi An. They put electricity in my vagina, on my nipples, in my ears, in my nose, on my fingers. Blood came out of my vagina. At night they put electricity inside my body and they beat me. They jumped on me with their shoes. Now when I breathe my whole chest hurts, and when I lie on the bed my body aches. They kept me for eighteen months.


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"I didn't say we had made a mistake," Major Hyatt said, describing what he had told the city council member who was representing the victims. "I said I'm being told I can make payments for these 15 because they were deemed not to be involved in combat."

The military began its examination of the killings in Haditha only after Time magazine presented findings of its investigation to a military spokesman in Baghdad in January.

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U.S. soldiers surround a car that exploded after hitting a police patrol Wednesday, in the northern city of Mosul. The attack killed at least five policemen and wounded 14.

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This image of Iraqis carrying a body comes from a video provided to media by the Iraqi human rights group Hamourabi. The group says it was filmed in Haditha after shootings involving U.S. Marines.

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Lives In The Balance

"I used to be one of those Marines who said that post-traumatic stress is a bunch of bull," said Ryan Briones, who has prescriptions for anti-depressants and sleeping pills. "But all this stuff that keeps going through my head is eating me up. I need immediate help."

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While the situations in both countries underline the doubtfulness of Bush's pledges of "complete victory" – most recently voiced Saturday at graduation at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point – in his "war on terror," what makes this year's Memorial Day particularly downbeat is the impending release of an official report on what almost certainly was a massacre of as many as two dozen unarmed Iraqis, including one five-month-old baby girl, carried out by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, last November.

"This was not an immediate response to an attack," another ex-Marine, Republican Rep. John Kline, also told the Times. "This would be an atrocity."

Worse, as in My Lai, there appears to have been an attempt at covering up the incident, including planting evidence to indicate the presence of armed resistance and lying to military investigators. The initial descriptions of the killings as resulting from the original bombing and then a running battle between the Marines and insurgents also proved false.

The fact, however, that no serious investigation of the killings appears to have taken place until after the appearance of Time's report more than four months after the incident – coupled with the military's offer of $2,500 per victim to the surviving family members in compensation, a decision normally handled at senior levels – has added to the impression that the Marines or the Pentagon or both had tried to prevent the massacre from coming to light.

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"They kill people, then they say 'sorry,' I hate them"

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Rest in peace



Born: October 2, 1869
Died: January 30, 1948

"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."

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"Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress,
Gandhi is inescapable.
He lived, thought and acted,
inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward
a world of peace and harmony.
We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk."

-Martin Luther King Jr.
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Today in Beatles err.. rock history! (December 26)

December 26, 1963: Capitol Records in the US (having rejected every Beatles record so far) finally rush-releases 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' Within five weeks it is at No. 1.

December 26, 1964: The Beatles' 'I Feel Fine' hits No. 1 on the US 45 chart.

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December 26, 1967: The Beatles' 'Magical Mystery Tour' gets its first showing on BBC TV.

December 26, 1970: George Harrison's 'My Sweet Lord' hits No. 1 on the US 45 chart. As well his 'All Things Must Pass' LP hits the UK LP chart.

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Today in rock history! (December 25)

December 25, 1959: Richard Starkey, also known as Ringo Starr, receives his first drum set for Christmas. The 19 year old is currently working as an apprentice engineer.

December 25, 1964: George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd is attacked by jealous female fans at the Beatles' Christmas concert at Hammersmith Odeon.

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December 25, 1965: The Who enters the UK LP chart for first time with 'My Generation.' In the song, Roger Daltrey sang the lead vocals with a stutter, which was very unusual. After recording two takes of this normally, manager Kit Lambert suggested to Daltrey to stutter in order to sound like a British kid on speed.

December 25, 1967: Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged.

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