ABC News: Officers Likely to Be Charged in Haditha Killings, Sources Say

ABC News: Officers Likely to Be Charged in Haditha Killings, Sources Say:

"June 2, 2006 — Military sources told ABC News that there are likely to be charges filed against officers up the chain of command in connection with the killing of 24 civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.

Those who could be charged include senior officers who were not on the scene at the time of the killing but should have known something wrong had happened and done something about it.

On Thursday, the White House confirmed that it was nearly three months after the Haditha killings that an investigation began, only after Time Magazine showed a video to a military spokesman.

Until then, the military insisted the civilians in Haditha had been killed by a roadside bomb."