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3 June 2006

Part 1: haditha.htm

Captions by Associated Press
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** ADVANCE FOR Sunday, OCT. 2 **Marine Lance Cpl. Travis Williams, right, takes a break alongside Capt. Christopher Toland, second to right, Sgt. Don Owens, third from right, and unidentified Marines during an offensive in the city of Haditha in western Iraq on May 29, 2005. The Marines from the Columbus, Ohio-based Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, who suffered 16 deaths during their tour, are scheduled to return to the United States in the coming days. (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)

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Vivian Bell comforts Tim Bell Sr., father of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Timothy M. Bell Jr., as Marines fold the flag that draped his casket during a memorial service at Lakota East High School in Liberty Township, Ohio, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005. Bell, who was assigned to the Reserve's 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, died Aug. 3, when his vehicle was hit by an explosive during combat operations south of Haditha, Iraq. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)

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U.S. Marine Sgt. Dennis Osborne of Cincinnati, Ohio, from the 3rd Platoon from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, pauses during operations in Parwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. A roadside bomb nearby killed 14 Marines, many from this platoon, and a civilian interpreter, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. Marines from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, walk along a cliff in Parwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005. A roadside bomb on Aug 3 nearby killed 14 Marines, many from this platoon , and a civilian interpreter, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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This family photo taken in the winter of 2004 shows U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Brian Montgomery of Willoughby, Ohio, with his son Alexander, who turned one Aug. 3, 2005. Montgomery was one of six snipers killed in action in Haditha, Iraq, Aug. 1. (AP Photo/ Montgomery family photo via The Plain Dealer) ** MANDATORY CREDIT **

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Adriana Rock, mother of Marine Sgt. Nathaniel Rock, kisses the casket of her son during funeral services Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005, in Toronto Union Cemetery in Toronto, Ohio. Rock was killed Aug. 1 during hostile fire in Haditha, Iraq. (AP Photo/Steubenville Herald Star, Brian Lander)

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U.S. Marines Lance Cpl. Zach Merril, left, of Ripley, Ohio, and Pfc. Derek Ward of Portsmouth, Ohio both from the 3rd Platoon from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regimen from Ohio, eat breakfast given to them by an Iraqi family, right, during a lull in fighting in Parwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. A roadside bomb nearby killed 14 Marines, many from this platoon, and a civilian interpreter, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremiah Crosby, 20, of Alamogordo, New Mexico, from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, sleeps with his hand on a picture of his wife, Kandice Crosby, during a lull in the fighting in Parwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. A roadside bomb nearby killed 14 Marines, many from this platoon, and a civilian interpreter, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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This 1998 Tri-Valley High School yearbook photo shows Marine Sgt. Bradley Harper. Harper of Dresden, Ohio was killed Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, when his vehicle was hit by an explosive during combat operations south of Haditha, Iraq. (AP Photo/Tri-Valley High School yearbook via Zanesville Times Recorder)

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U.S. Marine Capt. Christopher Toland, of Austin, Texas, who commands the 3rd Platoon from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, sleeps with a copy of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" on his chest during a lull in fighting in Parwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. A roadside bomb nearby killed 14 Marines, many from this platoon, and a civilian interpreter, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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Marine Lance Cpl. Kevin Waruinge is shown in an undated photo provided by his family. Waruinge, 22, of Tampa, Fla., assigned to the Reserve's 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Gulfport, Miss., was killed Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, in combat south of Haditha, Iraq. (AP Photo/Family Photo via The Tampa Tribune)

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This undated photo provided by the Long Family shows U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Grant B. Fraser of Anchorage, Alaska. Fraser, 22, was one of the14 Marines who died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2005, when their vehicle was hit by an explosive during combat operations south of Haditha, Iraq. (AP Photo/Family photo)

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U.S. Marines from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regimen from Ohio patrol in Barwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. A roadside bomb yesterday in Barwana killed 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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A U.S. Marine from the Third Battalion, Second Marine Regiment searches through a desk drawer at a school in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Wednesday, May 25, 2005. About 1,000 U.S. Marines, sailors and soldiers encircled Haditha, in the troubled Anbar province, launching the second major operation in this vast western region in less than a month. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. Marines from Lima Company of the 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment from Ohio, watch news reports in an Iraqi house where they are staying in Barwana, near Haditha, Iraq, on Al-Jazeera about fellow Marines Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. Fourteen Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines _ were killed Wednesday along with a civilian interpreter in the deadliest roadside bombing of U.S. troops in Iraq. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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A U.S. Marine climbs into an Amphibious Assault Vehicle, or Antrak in Barwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. A roadside bomb Wednesday in Barwana killed 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter riding in an Antrak, in the deadliest roadside bombing suffered by American forces in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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Ayad Ali Dayeer, a soldier in the Iraqi Army's Reconnaissance Unit, smokes a cigarette in a house that his unit is searching with supervision from U.S. Marines in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Saturday, May 28, 2005. In its fourth day, Operation New Market finished searching houses in the center part of the city. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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Marines inspect the remains of a vehicle destroyed by a roadside bomb yesterday, killing 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter, in Barwana, near Haditha, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005. This was one of the deadliest roadside bombings inflicted on American forces. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. Marines Lance Cpl. James Ryan, left, of Columbus, Ohio and Lance Cpl. Roy Romero of Espanola, New Mexico rest in the basement of a hydroelectric dam where they are living while stationed in al-Anbar Province in western Iraq, May 24, 2005. Near the restive city of Haditha, hundreds of U.S. Marines are entrenched inside a hydroelectric dam in the Euphrates River and live in roms previously used as offices. The base received mortar fire from insurgents daily. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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U.S. Marine Maj. Steven Lawson, right, of Columbus, Ohio, searches a house that marines believe is owned and was once occupied by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Thursday, May 26, 2005. Speculation about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's fate and conflicting claims Thursday over who is running al-Qaida in Iraq suggest confusion or perhaps even a power struggle within Iraq's most lethal terror group. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

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** EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Dead bodies are stored on ice in a makeshift morgue in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq after 19 bullet-riddled bodies were found in a stadium northwest of the capital, Thursday, April 21, 2005. The Iraqi defense ministry on Thursday identified the bodies as fishermen and not soldiers as initially rumored. On April 20, Haditha residents heard gunshots and rushed to the stadium, where they said they found the bodies slumped against a bloodstained wall. All appeared to have been gunned down, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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** EDITORS NOTE : GRAPHIC CONTENT ** Dead bodies lay along a wall in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 20, 2005. The Iraqi defense ministry on Thursday identified the 19 bullet riddled bodies as fishermen and not soldiers as initially rumored. On Wednesday, Haditha residents heard gunshots and rushed to the stadium, where they said they found the bodies slumped against a bloodstained wall. All appeared to have been gunned down, witnesses said. (AP Photo)

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Iraqis inspect the damage after an insurgent attack on an Iraqi Police station in Haditha, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 7, 2004. Armed rebels killed 22 people, including at least seven policemen, who were lined up and shot execution style. Using bombs and small arms fire, insurgents hit three police stations in the neighboring towns of Haditha and Haqlaniyah, 137 miles northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Ali Ahmed)

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** FILE ** In this undated photo from the Chancellor High School yearbook, Marine Cpl. Christopher Weaver, 24, of Spotsylvania, Va., is shown. Four Marines from a combat engineering company were killed and four injured during an ambush on the deadliest day in Iraq for U.S. troops, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005. Weaver and three others were killed in Iraq's Anbar Province. An embedded reporter, Jim Dolan of WABC in New York, said the four (including Weaver) were killed when insurgents ambushed a Marine convoy leaving the town of Haditha, northwest of Baghdad, hitting a vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade. (AP Photo/Chancellor High School Yearbook Via The Free Lance Star, File)

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A vehicle sits upended next to a police station, after an explosion in the eastern Iraqi city of Haditha, Iraq, Thursday, July 15, 2004. The blast killed 10 people in a second day of violence that highlighted insurgents' disregard for the country's interim government.(AP Photo/Emad Mullah)

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U.S. soldier patrol along the Euphrates River near the Iraqi town of Haditha during a search operation for a downed U.S. military helicopter which crashed into the river Wednesday Feb. 25, 2004, killing two crew members. With the latest crash, the U.S. military has lost 15 helicopters since the occupation began in May, most to hostile fire, with a total of 62 Americans killed in the crashes. (AP Photo/Abdul-Kadr Saadi)

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Sgt. Cyrus McCoy talks about his fallen comrade Staff Sgt. Stephen Anthony Bertolino Sr., after a memorial service for Bertolino at the Soldier's Memorial Chapel at Fort Carson, Colo., Friday, Jan. 9, 2004. Bertolino, 40, was killed on Nov. 29 in Haditha, Iraq when the convoy he was traveling in came under enemy fire. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

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U.S. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr. visits the Iraqi hydro-electric power station in Haditha, 200 km (136 miles), northwest of Baghdad, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2003. In recent days, U.S. forces have used heavy artillery, battle tanks, attack helicopters, F-16 fighter-bombers and AC-130 gunships to pound targets throughout central Iraq, including Tikrit, Baqouba and Fallujah. ``We are going to take the fight to the enemy using everything in our arsenal necessary to win this fight,'' Maj. Gen. Swannack said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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U.S. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr. gestures during a trip to the Iraqi hydro-electric power station in Haditha, 200 km (136 miles), northwest of Baghdad, Wednesday, Nov 19, 2003. In recent days, U.S. forces have used heavy artillery, battle tanks, attack helicopters, F-16 fighter-bombers and AC-130 gunships to pound targets throughout central Iraq, including Tikrit, Baqouba and Fallujah. ``We are going to take the fight to the enemy using everything in our arsenal necessary to win this fight,'' Swannack said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

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Jeremy Feldbusch, 24, a soldier in the 75th Ranger Regiment, explains the medals, ribbons and insignia on his uniform, at his Blairsville, Pa., home Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003. He was wounded on a mission at the Haditha Dam in northwest Iraq in April. Shrapnel hit his right temple and lodged in the left side of his brain. He underwent seven hours of brain surgery but is now blind. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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A U.S. army convoy passes by as smoke billows out from an oil pipeline after it caught fire, near Haditha, 280 kilometers west of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday Aug. 12, 2003. The cause of fire was not known. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

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Mayor Mohammed Nayil al-Jurayfi's of Haditha, touches a pile of confiscated empty shells outside the Haditha town hall, 300 kilometers, 186 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq in this July 1, 2003. The pro-American mayor and his son were killed in an ambush Wednesday July 16, 2003, the U.S. military reported. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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US Army Specialist Eric Jeffords from New York and with the 1st Squadron 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment walks past bombs which litter an ammunition bunker in Haditha, 300 kilomteres northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday July 1, 2003. A massive explosion over the weekend at this ammunition bunker near Haditha killed at least 15 people and injured at least four others when metal scavengers allegedly triggered the explosion while dismantling 155 mm artillery rounds, spreading gun powder on the ground at thedepot. The depot housed an old Iraqi artillery. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Iraqi police gather near the bullet-riddled car of pro-American Mayor Mohammed Nayil al-Jurayfi of Haditha, after he was killed, along with his son, in an ambush Wednesday July 16, 2003, 300 kilometers, 186 miles northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Samir Mezban)

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A woman who identified herself as ``martyrdom-seeker Nour Qaddour al-Shammari'', is shown in an image from an undated video, was identified by Iraqi televisions as one of the two women who were responsible for a suicide bombing in northwest Baghdad on Friday morning, April, 4, 2003. Three coalition troops, a pregnant woman and a driver were killed when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint southwest of the strategic Haditha Dam, according to a statement by U.S. Central Command. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera via APTN)