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January 12, 2012

Haditha Trial: Marine Sergeant Said, “We Should Kill Everyone” Prior To Mass Killing 
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A military trial is continuing for Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the last of the
U.S. marines charged in the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in the Iraqi
village of Haditha in November 2005. On Wednesday, a fellow Marine
testified that Wuterich called for violent retaliation against Iraqi
civilians if they were attacked. Wuterich allegedly told his men: "If we
ever get hit again, we should kill everyone in that vicinity." Wuterich
faces nine counts of voluntary manslaughter. During the trial, another
soldier admitted he urinated on the skull of one of the dead Iraqis.



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