Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Jeffrey Chessani.(North County Times file photo)
Haditha Incident Commander Speaks Out For The First Time -- Defend Our Marines
Retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Jeffrey Chessani broke more than five years of silence Tuesday to tell Defend Our Marines what it was like to finally leave the Marine Corps he loves without ever being entirely exonerated of failing to adequately investigate an alleged massacre that never happened.
“Praise God, this has taken care of everything,” Chessani said during an in-depth telephone interview from his home near Camp Pendleton, California. In the background the tiny voices of some of his seven children could occasionally be heard.
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My Comment: Aside from one or two blogs .... this story will unfortunately not be dessiminated to a larger audience, and Haditha will always be remembered as an event in which U.S. Marines massacred a number of Iraqis .... a massacre that never happened.
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