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...sleeves, as large inked designs are often called, Marines already in the Corps can keep the body art they have. But a commanding officer must document those tattoos to make sure nothing is added. "My tattoos express who I am," says Sergeant Adam Esquivel, a Marine serving at Camp Pendleton, near Oceanside, Calif. But he's resolved to follow the new order. "I chose to be a Marine. So I have to take the good with...
...exonerate himself and his military career, Marine lawyer Captain Randy Stone told an investigating officer at a Camp Pendleton, Calif., hearing that he did not investigate the alleged Marine killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, a story broken by TIME, because he believed that the troops had engaged in lawful combat. During earlier testimony, a Marine who had interviewed Stone, Colonel John Ewers, lambasted the lawyer's failure to look into the killings but said those actions were not criminal. The investigating officer will now decide if Stone should face a full trial...
...interests of the U.S. military in Iraq, right now, demand not only that justice be done over the Haditha killings, but also that it be seen to be done - by Iraqis as well as by Americans. That may help explain the extensive indictment, announced Thursday at Camp Pendleton, California - four Marines charged with murder in the killing of 24 Iraqis, and another four officers charged with dereliction of duty for not relaying accurate information about the killings up the chain of command. The charges send a sharp message of zero tolerance for abuses of civilians to U.S. uniformed personnel...
...help raise the morale of a U.S. public grown weary of what their Commander-in-Chief calls the "slow pace of success" in Iraq. Opinion surveys right now routinely find two out of three Americans opposed to the war and pessimistic about its chances of success. The Camp Pendleton Haditha trial is unlikely to persuade them otherwise...
...With reporting by Jill Underwood/Camp Pendleton...