LOS ANGELES (AP) — By his own account, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich told his junior Marines to shoot first and ask questions later as they assaulted several houses in Haditha, Iraq, killing the occupants with grenades and gunfire.
Now, nearly two years later, a hearing officer at Camp Pendleton was to begin taking evidence Thursday to determine whether the squad leader should stand trial on murder charges in the Nov. 19, 2005, attack that left 24 Iraqis dead.
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