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Report: US Marines May Have Tampered With Evidence in Haditha Incident
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?r=279&ctl=138BAA4:3919ACA Haditha case
centers on allegations US Marines murdered civilians after roadside
bomb in town killed fellow Marine





Image believed to have been taken a day or two after Haditha incident,
purportedly shows scene in one of houses in Haditha, Iraq after two
dozen civilian Iraqis were allegedly killed by US Marines November
2005A U.S. newspaper says U.S. Marines involved in the alleged murders
of 24 Iraqi civilians last November appear to have withheld or
destroyed evidence related to the incident.

The New York Times says military investigators have discovered the
official logbook of the unit involved in the incident has been
tampered with. All the pages from the day of the killings were
missing, and have yet to be found.

The newspaper also says video taken by an aerial drone that flew over
the area that day was not given to investigators until the
second-ranking U.S. commander in Iraq, Lieutenant-General Peter
Chiarelli, intervened.

The Times based its story on information provided by two Defense
Department officials, who agreed to speak to the newspaper only if
their names were not published.

The Haditha case centers on allegations U.S. Marines murdered the
civilians after a roadside bomb in the town killed a fellow Marine.

A separate investigation is being conducted into the killings
themselves.


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