One major problem in the entire U.S. strategy in Iraq is that there efforts to avoid turn-coats in Iraqi government forces have been disorganized and ineffective. Counter-intelligence, background checks, tip-lines, lie-detectors, rigorous screening, colocation with U.S. forces, and other techniques have not been efectively employed to prevent Iraqi forces from giving intelligence, arms, and assistance to the rebels, regardless of whether that assistance is provided under threat or voluntarily. One story by a local Ohio reporter that has not been widely circulated is that a cadre of Marine Snipers from an Ohio reserve unit may have been set up by Iraqis working with U.S. forces near Haditha:
Reports surfacing about the death of 20 Brook Park Marine reservists indicate that the Marines may have been betrayed.
The truth can be found in a classified report containing a completed investigation of the fatal events last August, reported NewsChannel5′s Adam Shapiro.
Shapiro spent two weeks conducting numerous conversations with families of the Marines who were killed, as well as ranking officers from the 3rd Battalion 25th Marines.
The families of those who died are being told that on Aug. 1, six Marine snipers from the 3/25 were killed, and it appears they were set up and ambushed.
Two days later, 14 Marines from the 3/25 were sent to arrest the insurgents who killed the snipers, but their vehicle was blown up, killing all of them.
It now appears that they also may have been set up.
Statements from the Marines indicate as much, and a father of one of the slain Marines says that’s the story he’s being told by Marines who were there.
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