Witness Testifies Marine Knowingly Shot Children in Haditha - washingtonpost.com: "CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., July 17 -- One of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 knew that only women and children were huddled in a back bedroom in a house there, but he opened the door and shot them anyway, a squadmate testified Tuesday.
'I told him, there's women and kids in that room,' Lance Cpl. Humberto M. Mendoza said of Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum. Tatum's response was, 'Well, shoot them,' Mendoza said."
'I told him, there's women and kids in that room,' Lance Cpl. Humberto M. Mendoza said of Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum. Tatum's response was, 'Well, shoot them,' Mendoza said."
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