http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/July/theworld_July198.xml§ion=theworld&col=WASHINGTON - Top US Marine Corps officers in Iraq failed to properly investigate reports of the killings of 24 civilians by marines in the town of Haditha, the New York Times reported Saturday, citing two Pentagon officials.
Lieutenant General Peter Chiarelli, currently the second-ranking US commander in Iraq, has found that a division commander, Major General Richard Huck, and the commander of the Second Regimental Combat Team, Colonel Stephen Davis, failed to investigate contradictions and inaccuracies in the initial incident report, the officials told the Times.
The November 2005 massacre in the western town has been a black eye for US forces trying to gain the support from Iraqi civilians.
Chiarelli “concludes that some officers were derelict in their duties,” one of the unnamed officials told the Times. The officials, who had been briefed by the findings, did not say how many officers aside from Huck and Davis were singled out.
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