Till the Haditha cover-up investigation is effectively completed, and its findings are leaked to the press by Congressmen and Senators after they have been briefed by the military, we won’t know the full details as to who first knew what and when. But at least the White House has clarified when and how the President [...]

The Iraqis have suddenly remembered that they’re supposed to be a sovereign nation: Iraq will investigate allegations that US marines carried out a massacre of civilians in Haditha in November, the country’s prime minister has said. Or did the U.S. nudge them and say: “C’mon guys, start acting like this sovereignty thing is true”? In [...]

The wheels of military justice may go round and round. But only after someone greases them and sets them spinning (as attested by Time’s role in turning the military’s mock investigations of the Haditha massacre into a real investigation). And very, very slowly even after that (as exemplified by the Pat Tillman shooting investigation, which [...]

The L.A. Times: Despite the questions being raised about the Marine Corps’ response to the (Haditha) incident, Bing West, a former assistant Defense secretary in the Reagan administration and author of two books about the Marines in Iraq, said he was confident that the Marines would be “implacable in meting out justice” once the investigations [...]

This doesn’t seem to have made a splash in the U.S. media yet, but a large number of international newspapers are reporting that a U.S. military intelligence photographer arrived on the scene of the Haditha massacre “moments after the shootings”. Those photographs unambiguously document that the marines of Kilo Company went on a murderous rampage, [...]