SAN DIEGO — Six Marines accused of injuring civilians in the Iraqi village of Hamdania in April were charged Thursday with assault.

Half of the men were already being held on murder charges in an unrelated case. Military officials said that the assaults were uncovered during an investigation into that slaying.

IMHO, this stinks to high heaven of a cover-up. My guess is that Murtha does indeed have friends in the military, and his friends are hard at work to keep him from looking as bad as he is.

Thanks for the pic, AP. She is further proof that conservative dolls are cuter.

Word!

Woooorrrrrdddd!!

Whose evidence does the ncis believe….Haditha was a “bad” town and the residents were in bed with the terroists….

I chose to believe the marines….Semper Fi

Il sergente dei marines Frank D. Wuterich ha querelato il congressman democratico John Murtha per diffamazione. Wuterich, uno dei militari statunitensi implicati nella cosiddetta strage di Haditha, in Iraq, ha chiesto di accelerare il processo che lo…..

Thanks for the pic, AP. She is further proof that conservative dolls are cuter.

Not always, my friend.

Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich has filed a defamation lawsuit against the infamous ex-Marine John (Jack) Murtha. He is leading the charge against the irresponsible and fraudulent conclusions touted by Murtha in front of the whole world concerning Wuter…

Congressman John Murtha today released the following statement about a lawsuit filed by a Marine Corps staff sergeant charged in the incident at Haditha in November 2005.

Charged with what?!?! I thought they were still doing the investigation.

Thanks for the pic, AP. She is further proof that conservative dolls are cuter.

Thanks for the recognition, Shooter. Perhaps I should start referring to it as The Party of Bupkis. ;o)

Marine Corps staff sergeant, Frank D. Wuterich, has filed a lawsuit against John Murtha, the disgraced congressman from Pennsylvania, alleging defamation of character. Wuterich’s attorneys should face little difficulty demonstrating Murtha’s culpabil…

Nice job slipping this surrender gem into the lawsuit response.

What do you suppose this old bat is thinking about? Well, I’ve got something for him to think about: a defamation lawsuit. Whether the Marine wins or loses, maybe it will, at the very least, cause loose-lipped Democrats to think twice before slanderi….

She is climbing in the polls? That is a Good Thing! I hope that Diana Irey hits Fox News again to bolster her campaign finances. I think I’ll send her a check today.

Agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service have completed their initial work on the incident last November, but may be asked to probe further as Marine Corps and Navy prosecutors review the evidence and determine whether to recommend criminal charges, according to two Pentagon officials who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity.

It sounds like they have bupkis to me. Why else would they need to ‘probe further’.

The decision on whether to press criminal charges ultimately will be made by the commander of the accused Marines’ parent unit, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, Calif. That currently is Lt. Gen. John Sattler, but he is scheduled to move to a Pentagon assignment soon; his successor will be Lt. Gen. James Mattis.

Don’t know much about Sattler, but I’m pretty confident that Mattis isn’t going to sacrifice innocent Marines on the altar of PC. It will be interesting to see what the NCIS report has to say.

Is Wuterich’s lawsuit a way to distract attention from that? Or is the leak a way to distract attention from Wuterich’s lawsuit?

If someone with more experience in cases of this type is available for comment, I’d love to hear their educated guess on that question.

I hope this guy is not guilty and I hope he nails that POS Murtha to the f’ing wall.

Not much time to comment on this story at the moment, but it just came across the wires and I wanted to post it for readers to discuss:
WASHINGTON – Evidence collected on the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliber…

Marine Names Murtha in Defamation SuitCongressman Discussed Killings Involving Serviceman’s Squad in Haditha, IraqA Marine Corps staff sergeant who led the squad accused of killing two dozen civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will file a lawsuit today in fed…

Congresspig Murtha and his ilk would like for you to believe that the troops are demoralized, run down, tired, and generally burned out due to their deployments to Iraq. They’d like you to believe that like Vietnam, the troops are just murderers and t…

America’s most disgusting Ex-Marine is sued for libel over his allegations that Marines in Haditha “killed innocent civilians in cold blood.” Attorneys for Frank D. Wuterich, 26, argue in court papers that Murtha tarnished the Marine’s reputation b…