Breaking: Eyewitnesses to the Haditha massacre!!!

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Posted at Dailykos by EZ Writer...tomorrow's Washington Post story, heartbreaking it is, too.:

The Washington Post has a chilling eyewitness account from Haditha, where Marines allegedly killed 24 civilians on Nov. 19.

BAGHDAD, Iraq--Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal in a roadside bombing.

Aws Fahmi, a Haditha resident who said he watched and listened from his home as Marines went from house to house killing members of three families, recalled hearing his neighbor across the street, Younis Salim Khafif, plead in English for the lives of himself and his family. ``I heard Younis speaking to the Americans, saying: 'I am a friend. I am good,' '' said Fahmi. ``But they killed him, and his wife and daughters.''

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