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Classified documents on the massacre in Haditha in the compound of garbage in Baghdad
On: Friday 16/12/2011 5:58
□ Washington / agencies
at a time when U.S. forces to leave Iraq, after the announcement of U.S. President Barack Obama on the end of the war there, New York Times revealed the U.S. as the texts of a series of interviews, the military conducted a few years ago with members of the U.S. Army for the massacre of Iraqi town of Haditha, where he found the newspaper's correspondent in the trailer in one of the spaces allocated to the dumping of waste outside the capital, Baghdad.
The interviews in the form of interrogations, and the number of pages, 400 pages, and I swear by members of the power of the U.S. Marine Corps, respectively, on account of the truth about the massacre at Haditha, which took place in 2005, and is considered one of the most horrific events that took place during the U.S. troop presence in Iraq, and killed dozens of civilians.
reportedly one of the interviews, confessions of Colonel Thomas Kareker, which is one of the leaders in Anbar province at the time, during his interview with investigators, he talks about the chaos that was taking place in Iraq, "what I mean whether it's a product of our business or the work of others, we discovered 20 bodies slaughtered, and 20 bodies separated by a head, 20 bodies here, and 20 bodies there. "
He Kareker that "the deaths were located in some cases as a result of the attacks that were launched grenades at the checkpoints, and that the guarantees are with the civilians." The newspaper pointed out, for its part that such texts, which was considered a secret of the secrets of the war, was supposed to be destroyed, with the imminent departure of U.S. forces of the country.
But the newspaper's correspondent found those texts and a package of other confidential documents, which include military maps highlight the paths of helicopters and capabilities of radar systems, in a private yard waste out of the capital Baghdad. Was obtained by the reporter at the time was setting in which a present-fire fuel for dinner prepared.
The newspaper added, saying that the documents - the work many of them as confidential documents - are part of the internal investigation conducted by the army, and confirm much of what took place in a modern city, where he was killed Marines of 24 Iraqis, including an elderly man at the age of 76 years sitting in a wheelchair, as well as women and children and some young children.
and become the Haditha massacre this defining moment in the war, which helped to enhance the feelings of doubt the Iraqi intentions of the United States, and gave birth to the case great anger and resentment as a result of lack of accountability of any of the Marines. However, she noted the paper to the importance given to information received by the documents, which revealed the extent of the special pressures that were received on the shoulders of the soldiers and their frustrations and interviews were painful mostly with the people can not understand. According to their confessions, which were recorded in the documents, has been characterized that war is human nature. In his testimony, said Maj. Gen. Steve Johnson, commander of U.S. forces in Anbar, the Iraqi civilians were being killed all the time. He also pointed out that the pressure of combat operations, injuring some soldiers to a standstill. The New York Times explained in the same context that the soldiers, who have been abused as a result of the escalation of violence and their sense of being trapped down, may become increasingly striking, and they are now killing more and more civilians in occasional confrontations. While stripping others of their feelings, and become the deliberate obtuse sense, to the extent that they were deliberately firing on Iraqi civilians, while their colleagues photograph, which was subjected to military tribunals.
has been dropped charges against six Marines in Haditha, and another one was acquitted, while the scheduled to be considered in the last issue of the right of a remaining troops next year. Followed by the paper confirm that this sense of immunity, the U.S. has spent in the latter on any opportunities for the survival of U.S. forces in Iraq because Iraqis will not allow her to stay without being subject to the laws and the Iraqi courts, a condition which can not be the White House accepted.
With regard to those documents that have been found, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, many of the documents remain confidential and must be destroyed. He continued, "Despite how inappropriate that was disposed of those documents came up in the possession, but he was not authorized us to go into discussions on the secret information."
, the newspaper pointed out that the documents led in the end, the report concluded that the leadership Navy involvement in the "neglect of a deliberate" about the lack of investigation into the Haditha massacre and that the leaders of the weapons were ready to a large extent to withstand losses among civilians.
then went on the paper talking about how immoral it is dealing with American soldiers with Iraqi citizens, and said that such an atmosphere that paved the modern day of what happened to the nineteenth of November 2005. These documents have been found by the newspaper because of the confidentiality of its contents of materials, including hand-written notes from the troops and concessions from the Marines for their rights against self-incrimination and plans of the places you found on the dead were women and children.
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