SAN DIEGO — Attorneys for Marines being investigated for possible war crimes in the deaths of 24 Iraqis in Haditha said Sunday that their clients did nothing wrong and were following the military's rules on how to combat armed insurgents hiding inside homes.
"There will be no proof that these Marines intentionally killed civilians," attorney Neal Puckett said. "To call this a massacre is completely groundless."
The account of Puckett and other attorneys of what happened Nov. 19 in the town beside the Euphrates River differs sharply from what Iraqi survivors have told reporters. Those witnesses have said that after a roadside bomb killed one Marine and injured several more, other Marines rampaged from house to house, rounding up civilians and killing them without provocation.
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