Haditha

Evidence Doctored…



A video taped from a Scan Eagle unmanned aerial vehicle, has shown that the action that took place in Haditha when 24 Iraqi civilians and insurgents were killed, was heavily edited by government investigators

By de Andréa

The reason, according to an inside source, was to avoid showing anything that exonerates the Marines who were accused of murdering innocent Iraqis, all this to appease local Iraqis and the biased hate America media.

Four Marines originally faced murder charges stemming from the so-called Haditha incident. Charges against three of these American heroes have since been dropped, but Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich is still facing a court martial for doing what he was trained to do, fight the enemy.

The video, which was broadcast by CNN, was a small, carefully edited part of what the Scan Eagle transmitted during its daylong surveillance flight over the battle scene on Nov. 19, 2005. Shockingly, the approximately one hour of edited footage was the only Scan Eagle footage provided to the Marines’ defense teams by the prosecution.

According to CNN, “The video appears to show that, throughout that day, Marines engaged in fierce firefights and called in air strikes to level buildings, with no definitive idea of who was inside."

Had the entire video been shown it would have revealed that the Marines knew exactly “who was inside”, insurgents were clearly shown entering the buildings before the structures were bombed. If CNN had been able “to review the whole video, they would see that we did indeed have a definitive idea of who was inside,’" an intelligence officer said. The insurgents’ car parked outside the buildings “was packed to the gills with weapons, and we had just witnessed them ambush our ambulance,” the officer said. “We saw them enter the house, slapping each other on the back and congratulating themselves.”

The Marine intelligence officer who monitored the Scan Eagle’s video transmissions throughout the day said that there was continuous video feed from the Scan Eagle for 8 to 10 hours. Yet barely an hour of it was provided to the Marines' defense teams by the prosecution or the Naval Criminal Investigation Service.

“Someone, under the supervision of NCIS, screened this video feed, and made the conscious decision to preserve only four segments of approximately 15 minutes each, according to the defense attorneys who received it from an intelligence source.

“This 8 to 10 hours, viewed in its entirety, shows men in black, with weapons, fleeing the neighborhood of houses 1, 2, 3 and 4 [the area where the civilians and eight of the insurgents were killed]. It follows their route as they meet up with other insurgents throughout the city. It clearly demonstrates the magnitude of the insurgents’ organization, skill, and timing in attacking the Marines.”

The video, he recalled, “shows them parking, exiting the vehicle, and entering the housing complex. It shows Marines assaulting the building, insurgents fleeing out the back of the building, and Marines falling back from the assault as the insurgents defend the house.”

Finally, the intelligence officer revealed, the full, un-doctored Scan Eagle video “shows an insurgent, at the end of the day, under continuous observation from the air and under continuous pursuit and fire, emerge from a family's home holding their children hostage, in order to protect himself from further air strikes.”

“The deliberate editing of the video was to show the defendants in the worst possible light”, the Marine intelligence expert said. “This should have the defense screaming prosecutorial and NCIS misconduct.”

The media has focused on the killing of five young men who arrived in the midst of the insurgent ambush in a white car, usually described as a taxi, and were gunned down by Wuterich and/or Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz. Dela Cruz was one of the Marines originally accused of murdering civilians before charges were dropped when he agreed to testify against his fellow Marines.

The biased media has generally sought to portray the Haditha ambush as a massacre by Marines on a rampage, and the media’s bias has been on display as recently as Friday when major newspapers largely ignored a key development in Frank Wuterich’s Article 32 hearing. The prosecution’s star witness all but collapsed on the witness stand after a withering cross-examination.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Our government has spared no expense in seeking to find wrongdoing on the part of our hard-fighting Marines. It is my opinion that all investigations by NCIS and prosecutions by JAG going clear back to the so-called Mei Li massacre in Vietnam should come under scrutiny. It seems typical for certain Government officials to put pressure on the military to throw a sacrificial bone to the enemy and the hate America media that supports them. What we should do is throw the bones of these liberal socialist hate America government officials to the wolves of Islam.

I am charging the “Brass” in the military with becoming an enemy enabler, this is next to treason. To send soldiers into combat and then condemn them when they do their job, is providing aid to the enemy, especially in this case of tampering with evidence. It is unconscionable and inconceivable.

Right or wrong, most of these armchair brass-hats have never fought an ambiguous enemy that is too cowardly to wear a uniform which would make his identity obvious. This was the same problem in Vietnam, where a child could be a walking bomb, or an old mamasan pushing a baby buggy could be V.C. carrying a bomb instead of a baby. Mei Li incidentally was just such a case where GI’s were tired of being taken by surprise and blown up by children and old people so they leveled a village of children and old people. This by the way is why they say war is hell.

Today, just as in Nam, the brass will gladly throw a sacrificial lamb to the media rather than to defend or try to explain what I just attempted to explain.

After all one hand washes the other, doesn’t it…???

de Andréa