Politicians: Haditha probe must go to top - Yahoo! News

Politicians: Haditha probe must go to top - Yahoo! News: "Sun Jun 4, 8:37 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US probe of an alleged massacre of civilians in Haditha,
Iraq must go beyond accused Marines and up the military command to rule out any possibility of a cover-up, US lawmakers said.
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'The test will be whether the leadership in the
Department of Defense and in the administration does not try to ... say it was just a few Marines or a few soldiers, but looks to see if this is part of a larger systemic problem,' Senator Jack Reed told 'Fox News Sunday.'

Meanwhile, Senator Carl Levin told CNN's 'Late Edition' program: 'There is a real possibility of a cover-up.'

Levin pointed out that the massacre of some 24 men, women and children in November only came to light only months after the fact, in a March 2006 Time Magazine article."