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Lion of Babylon -> RE: Mahdi Army Caught red handed (7/18/2007 9:26:38 AM)
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Yes dude. I know the rest belong to the Military (God gave me eyes too!). Nothing new, there are so many video's like these posted on youtube so I am no longer shocked by such clips. Doing the dirty work means when ever the US army wants to do operations without having direct links to them they send blackwater in because security firms are not beholden to any US military law. Hope that has cleared it up for you. Read the below:
Stunning Quotes From Trial of US Marine
One Shock Statement After Another in Trial of Marine Facing Iraq Murder Charges
The LA Times scoops with the story, which opens this way:
By Tony Perry, Times Staff Writer July 15, 2007
CAMP PENDLETON — A Marine corporal, testifying Saturday at the murder trial of a buddy, said that Marines in his unit began routinely beating Iraqis after being ordered by officers to "crank up the violence level."
Cpl. Saul H. Lopezromo said Marines in his platoon, including the defendant, Cpl. Trent D. Thomas, were angry when officers criticized them as not being as tough as other Marine platoons.
"We're all hard-chargers, we're not there to mess around, so we took it as an insult," Lopezromo said.
Within weeks of allegedly being scolded, seven Marines and a Navy corpsman went out late one night to find and kill a suspected insurgent in the village of Hamandiya near the Abu Ghraib prison. The Marines and corpsman were from 2nd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment. Lopezromo said their target was known to his neighbors as the "prince of jihad" and had been arrested several times, only to be released by the Iraqi legal system.
Other key quotes:
-- "If somebody is worth shooting once, they're worth shooting twice"
-- "I don't see it as an execution, sir," he told the judge. "I see it as killing the enemy."
-- He added that Marines, in effect, consider all Iraqi men as part of the insurgency. "Because of the way they live, the clans, they're all in it together," he said.
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