Convicted Marine details ill-fated plan

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Convicted Marine details ill-fated plan
By Thomas Watkins, Associated Press Writer | August 10, 2007

LOS ANGELES --Cpl. Marshall Magincalda and seven of his comrades were angry. For weeks, the squad had endured insurgent attacks, but lacked evidence against the man they suspected was responsible.

Magincalda told The Associated Press on Thursday in his first in-depth interview since being released from the Camp Pendleton brig last week that the Marines warned the man that if any more bombs went off, they would be paying him a visit.

When a second blast occurred a week later, in April last year, they hatched a plan for an unorthodox revenge. In the end, however, a different man ended up dead.

"I am upset with my actions over there for not stopping what happened, but at the same time, I don't think you guys understand what is going on over there," he said. "This is a war, and the other side, they don't have rules. When we do finally get the intelligence and we do have enough to get someone, it's very rare to actually catch them in the act."

The idea was simple, Magincalda said: They would split into two groups, with four men going to the man's home. The others would hide in a stand of palm trees until the first team returned with the target. Then, they would shoot him and doctor the scene to make it look like he was planting a bomb.


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[onethatcares]

1. the first victim in war

TRUTH

[lapfog_1]

2. Besides violating the rules of engagement...

and committing a war crime, here is the part that really shows how far we've already slid from the "moral high ground".

"Low said prosecutors never proved that the victim was an innocent civilian."

WTF?