Saturday, July 07, 2007

More Bad Apples
The same Marine unit implicated in the Haditha massacre, Kilo (K) Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment has more members under investigation by the Navy CIS (Criminal Investigative Service). Unit personnel allegedly murdered 5-10 disarmed captives held in an abandoned building during the siege of Fallujah in November, 2004. A former marine applying for a job with the Secret Service revealed the details during a polygraph examination. Apparently there is no corroborating evidence available making successful prosecution for the alleged war crimes difficult, if not impossible. Last year, the former Marine told a historian working on a book about the heavy fighting for the city of the incident. According to the journalist the marine told him that his fire team radioed headquarters for instructions about what to do with the captives. The cryptic reply was interpreted as an order to kill the prisoners.