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Previously on in the Dark.
How did the Marine seem?
They are angry and they want just to shoot.
He get his rifle under bed and start shooting at us.
When we are under the bed, he.
Put his rifle and start shooting to.
Me and noor maybe a lot of this is imagination.
And none of this was near as bad as it seemed.
I'm talking about what actually happened to the civilians.
They did not get the pictures.
Those pictures today have still not been seen.
Where are they?
Frankly, I believe I gave the Marines the benefit of the doubt every opportunity that I could.
Yeah, I mean, did you think that a war crime had been committed?
I don't have any opinion on that.
The first investigation into what happened on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, the one conducted by Colonel Watt, was brief and friendly and not too detailed.
But for all of Watt's inclination to give the Marines the benefit of the doubt, he did recommend another investigation, a criminal one.