Word: hay
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...First (and only) Sister made the BookExpo scene at a swank cocktail reception at Washington's Hay-Adams Hotel, a stone's throw from the White House. Her memoir on 41's behalf will tell the story of her famous father's life. To that end, she has interviewed all of the living presidents and many world leaders. "Before he was the President, he was her dad," trumpets her publisher...
...Hay al-Sinnani Road today, there are no telltale signs of what happened that bloody November morning. The spot where the IED went off, killing Lance Corporal Miguel Terazzas and starting the chain of terrible events, has been repaired with fresh concrete. The four houses where the tragedy unfolded have recently been patched up. The bullet holes have been filled, the scorch marks from FRAG grenades painted over and walls repaired. ?A stranger would not know anything special had happened there,? says Taher Thabet, a local journalism student and human-rights worker whose video first brought the Haditha massacre...
...Those memories would have come in handy for sleuths of the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS, who have spent time in Haditha in recent weeks, to uncover the facts of the massacre. Belated as the investigation was, the residents of Hay al-Sinnani say they were gratified by its thoroughness. That there have been three separate enquiries suggests the U.S. military ?want to get at the truth,? says Walid Abdel Khaliq, the doctor of the Haditha morgue where the victims' bodies were taken...
...neighborhood expect the Marines to be adequately punished for their role in the massacre. They point to the Abu Ghraib trials, which many Iraqis feel have resulted in only light sentences for the offending guards. Asked what punishment would be appropriate for those who killed the 24 Iraqis on Hay al-Sinnani, Raseef responds angrily, ?There's only one appropriate punishment: a bullet in the head...
...Marines continue to patrol al-Subhani; on Hay al-Sinnani, there are convoys of Humvees practically every other day. There are occasional foot patrols. The week after the massacre, the Marines were edgy and hostile. ?They would get on top of the roofs of our houses and point their guns around,? says Thabet. ?They would constantly tell us, 'We know some terrorists have passed this way; where did they go?'? Gradually, the patrols returned to normal...