World-News

By CBS/AP

A Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction of duty in a deal that will mean a maximum of three months confinement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30339.htm



Critics Say Haditha Sends Message That U.S. Won t Punish War Crimes

By Scott Gold and Carol J. Williams

''Its' going to be hard to explain to the world that at the end of the day this fellow will serve three months and that the charges have been so significantly reduced.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30340.htm



Iraqis condemn U.S. Haditha sentence as insult

A three-month jail sentence for a U.S. Marine sergeant accused of leading a massacre of 24 civilians in Haditha is ''an insult to all Iraqis,'' a relative of one of the victims said Tuesday.

http://cour.at/wEN5y1



In Iraqi town of Haditha, disbelief at light sentence for Marine who led raid that killed 24

Residents expressed disbelief and sadness that the Marine sergeant who told his troops to ''shoot first, ask questions later'' reached a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time.

http://wapo.st/wmO9K9



US Media Iraq Reporting: See No Evil

The Iraq war may be over, at least for US troops, but the cover-up of the atrocities committed there by American forces goes on, even in retrospectives about the war.

http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/1019



U.S. Soldier 'soaked in victims' blood'

A US soldier accused of one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars was captured on surveillance video running out of the darkness with the blood of his victims smeared on his face and soaked into his clothes, a prosecutor said.

http://is.gd/cW3d75


From Information Clearing House

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Iraq in retrospect

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

02/01/12

So what did we get in return for the thousands of lives lost and billions spent 'liberating' Iraq? We got a veritable dictatorship that routinely suppresses dissent, murders journalists, and is so infused with corruption that Iraqis routinely argue which government agency is the most venal...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/01/31/iraq-in-retrospect/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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