I am not surprised by what happened in Haditha because Americans are terrorists and killers. And this is the way of life now. I don’t care if they punish the American soldiers because they cannot bring back the lives of the dead.

—Baghdad sandwich vendor Murthada Abdel Rashid, 29, when asked for reaction to the alleged murder of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the northwestern town of Haditha last fall. According to news reports, U.S. military investigators have found that as many as 24 civilians, including women and children, were shot in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal, and not killed in a roadside bomb blast or crossfire as the military previously said.

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