US hands over former flashpoint
Sep 1, 2008 9:52 PM The US military has handed over Iraq's western Anbar province to Iraqi security forces, less than two years after the region was all but lost to a Sunni Arab insurgency. "We are in...
View ArticlePa. Marine sues Rep. Murtha over Haditha comments
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A former Marine sued Rep. John Murtha for slander on Thursday, saying the congressman damaged his reputation by saying he and his comrades killed women and children "in cold blood"...
View ArticleRobert Fisk's World: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is...
All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's The Independent's mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers - "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze]...
View ArticleNo release for CBS tapes of Marine in Iraqi deaths
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- CBS News has won a legal battle with Marine Corps prosecutors who wanted unaired footage of a "60 Minutes" interview...
View ArticleIraq seizes group accused of Baghdad car bombs
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities said on Tuesday they had arrested a policeman and six others accused of being al Qaeda members who staged car bombings in Baghdad the day before a visit by U.S....
View ArticleWhy I Threw the Shoe
I am free. But my country is still a prisoner of war. There has been a lot of talk about the action and about the person who took it, and about the hero and the heroic act, and the symbol and the...
View ArticleDead Sea needs world help to stay alive
GHOR HADITHA -- The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts...
View ArticleDead Sea is 'rapidly vanishing'
Ghor Haditha, Jordan - The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water,...
View ArticleMarines to hold hearing for officer on Iraq deaths
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A Camp Pendleton Marine officer whose criminal charges of failing to investigate the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians were dismissed must clear one final hurdle before...
View ArticleConflictiing portraits emerge of accused Marine
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A prosecutor has argued that a Marine Corps officer facing demotion failed to fully disclose and investigate the killing of two dozen Iraqi men, women and children by...
View ArticlePanel faults Marine for response to Iraq killings
SAN DIEGO – A military panel found that a Marine officer displayed substandard performance in his response to the deaths of 24 Iraqis but said he should maintain his rank. The Board of Inquiry's...
View ArticlePa. Dem Murtha Remembered as Military Advocate
Filed at 4:05 a.m. ET HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Rep. John Murtha, who said the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq was based on ''flawed policy wrapped in illusion'' and called for a...
View ArticleMarine general to testify at Haditha hearing
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- A four-star general will testify at a pretrial hearing in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war, a Marine Corps spokesman said...
View ArticleLast Haditha defendant seeks to dismiss charges
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- Eight Marines were charged in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war. Six have had charges dismissed, and one was acquitted. Whether...
View ArticleJudge says burden is on government in Haditha case
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – An attorney for a Marine facing a court-martial in a case involving the deaths of 24 Iraqis...
View ArticleMilitary judge could end case of 24 Iraqi killings
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- The news came at a low point in the war in Iraq and seemed to reflect much of what was going wrong: A Marine squad killed 24 people in the town of Haditha in November...
View ArticleJudge to rule on case involving 24 Iraqi deaths
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – It has been more than four years since Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich led a squad of Marines in killing 24 Iraqis, some unarmed women in children. It has been more than two years...
View ArticleMarine's Iraq killings trial to go forward
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A military judge on Friday refused to dismiss charges against a Marine who led a squad that killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children in the town of Haditha after a bomb killed...
View ArticleUS marine to face trial over Iraq killings
A US marine is to go on trial over the killing of 24 men, women and children in the Iraqi town of Haditha in 2005. The trial of Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich will go ahead after a military judge in...
View ArticleLast defendant in Iraq killings ready for trial
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) -- Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich entered military court thinking charges against him in a case involving the deaths of 24 Iraqis - some children - would be dismissed. He...
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