Case Against Haditha Marine Falls Apart

The so called damming evidence against the Haditha Marines is the word of two Orcs whose cell phone exchanges had initially tipped off our Marines to an impending ambush. Cell electronic signatures were compared and they matched the same two helpful Orcs who were the source for Time magazine ace reporter Tim McGirk reportage of a Marine "rampage" in Haditha.

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As it turns out, the insurgents whose communications were intercepted, revealing the planned ambush, were the same two men who were the sources of the fallacious and dishonest March 27, 2006, Time magazine story that prompted the charges against the Haditha Marines.

Time magazine reporter Tim McGirk has written about how a "budding journalism student" had given him a video taken after the Marines' alleged rampage. Except the student was 43-year-old Taher Thabet al-Hadithi, head of a human rights organization whose only other member was Ali Omar Abrahem el-Mashhadani.