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Timeline: The Haditha Investigation
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
By The Associated Press
A timeline of events surrounding the alleged massacre at Haditha, Iraq, based on a June 1 White House account and other details compiled by The Associated Press:
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Nov. 19: A roadside bomb goes off at Haditha, killing a U.S. Marine and injuring two other members of his battalion. In the following hours, a number of Iraqis die. Subsequent press reports say the Iraqi death toll was 24. The military sends a team to investigate and document the scene.
Nov. 20: The Marines release a preliminary report saying 15 Iraqis had been killed by an IED, or improvised explosive device.
Feb. 10: Time magazine raises questions with military sources in Baghdad about the circumstances of the Iraqi deaths.
Feb. 14: Army Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, commander of Multi-National Corps in Iraq, appoints an Army colonel to lead an investigation into the case.
March 3: A preliminary report is completed and recommends further investigation.
March 9: Chiarelli receives the initial findings of the preliminary investigation and directs further review.
March 10: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are notified of the case.
March 11: President Bush is told of the case for the first time by National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
March 12: Marine Maj. Gen. Richard C. Zilmer, commanding general of the Multinational Force-West, appoints a Marine colonel to investigate reporting of information at all levels of the chain of command. Zilmer also requests a Naval Criminal Investigative Service inquiry.
March 13: The Naval Criminal Investigative Service team arrives in Haditha.
March 19: Time magazine reports the first public account of the case. Chiarelli appoints Army Major General Eldon A. Bargewell to investigate the training and preparation of Marines before Haditha killings, along with the reporting of information concerning the case at all levels of the chain of command.
May 17: Rep. John Murtha, an Iraq war critic, says the Pentagon probe will show that Marines killed more than a dozen innocent Iraqi civilians"in cold blood"in Haditha.
June 3: Murtha expresses concern thatthere may have been an attempt by some in the military to hide information about the killings.
June 7: Gen. Michael Hagee, the Marine commandant, says any Marine found to have violated standards of behavior will be held accountable but that he'll wait until criminal investigations are completed before he removing any commanders from their posts
June 10: Neal A. Puckett, lawyer for a sergeant who led a squad of Marines during the incident, says the unit followed military rules of engagement, did not intentionally target any civilians and did not try to cover up what it had done. Puckett says his client, Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich, 26, told him several civilians were killed when his squad pursued insurgents firing at them from inside a house after the bombing.
June 16: Bargewell, the Army general investigating a possible cover-up in the deaths, says his report has been completed.
June 21: The Los Angeles Times reports that Bargewell's investigation concludes that senior military personnel in Iraq did not follow up on potential inaccuracies in early accounts of the deaths.
July 7: A U.S. military official says Chiarelli agrees with Bargewell's report that errors were made in the reporting and follow-up of initial allegations after the killings.
Aug. 2: In a federal lawsuit, Wuterich accuses Murtha of defaming him in public comments about the case.
Aug. 2: Pentagon officials say evidence collected in the Haditha probe supports accusations that U.S. Marines deliberately shot the civilians, including unarmed women and children. Marine and Navy prosecutors will review the evidence and determine whether to recommend criminal charges.
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