<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Haditha: News &amp; Videos about Haditha - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Haditha</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Haditha from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:34:56 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Haditha: News &amp; Videos about Haditha - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2008/US/06/17/haditha.charges/tztop.chessani.ap.jpg</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Haditha</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Haditha from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Highest-ranking officer cleared in Haditha deaths</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/17/haditha.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/17/haditha.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Marine officer on Tuesday became the seventh person cleared of charges related to the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Charges Dropped in Haditha Case</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1815403,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1815403,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A military judge has dismissed charges against a Marine officer accused of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marine Acquitted in Haditha Cover-Up</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1811852,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1811852,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A military jury acquitted a Marine intelligence officer Wednesday of charges that he tried to help cover up the killings of 24 Iraqis, including women and children</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prosecutors Seek Haditha Footage</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1715498,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1715498,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Military prosecutors say unaired footage of a CBS interview given by a Marine squad leader contains admissions of crimes in an attack that killed 24 Iraqi civilians</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Two Marines to face courts martial in Haditha incident </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/19/marines.haditha/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/19/marines.haditha/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two Marines charged in connection with the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, will face courts martial, the commanding general overseeing the case said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who Will Be Punished for Haditha?</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1670496,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1670496,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Coming up with a prosecutable case against the Marines responsible for the alleged massacre of Iraqi civilians has turned out to be more difficult than anyone expected</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pentagon: Lesser charges proposed for Marine in Haditha incident</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/04/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/10/04/iraq.main/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The case against a Marine accused of murder in a 2005 incident involving the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha "is simply not strong enough to prove against a reasonable doubt," the investigating officer said Thursday. </description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Charges dropped against company commander in Haditha killings </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.haditha/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.haditha/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Marine Corps has dropped charges against the commander of the Marine company involved in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Review: Weekend's lead player: Violence</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/13/review.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/13/review.violence/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>What world are we living in? That's the question that kept coming up again and again over the course of the Toronto International Film Festival, which wraps this weekend.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Marine officers disciplined over Haditha killings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/05/haditha.officers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/05/haditha.officers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Three senior U.S. Marine Corps officers have been sanctioned in connection with the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, but it was determined they didn't commit any crimes, the Marine Corps said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Spy plane video to be evidence in Haditha killings case</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/31/haditha.video/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/31/haditha.video/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Flying over Haditha, Iraq, on November 19, 2005, a small, unmanned spy plane called "Scan Eagle" recorded scenes of heavy fighting -- bombings and strafings from the air, and ground work by U.S. Marines seeking insurgents who earlier in the day had set off a roadside bomb that killed one of their members.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Charges dropped for two Marines in Haditha killings </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/09/haditha.charges.dropped/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/09/haditha.charges.dropped/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Charges have been dropped for two Marines accused in the 2005 killings of Iraqi civilians in Iraq, the U.S. Marine Corps said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:45:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Investigators focus on Marines in Falluja civilian deaths</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/05/iraq.falluja/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/05/iraq.falluja/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Several Marines who were involved in the November 2004 offensive in Falluja, Iraq, are now the focus of an investigation into allegations that civilians were intentionally killed during the operation, several Pentagon officials have confirmed.</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:16:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>8 Marines face charges in Haditha killings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/12/21/iraq.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/12/21/iraq.haditha/index.html</guid><description>Four Marines have been charged with murder in the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians, and four officers are accused of failing to investigate and report the deaths properly, the Marine Corps announced Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Accused Marine suing Murtha</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/02/haditha.suit/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/02/haditha.suit/index.html</guid><description>A Marine staff sergeant linked to the killings of civilians in Haditha, Iraq, is suing anti-war Congressman John Murtha for libel, his attorneys announced Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Navy ends Haditha investigation</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/01/haditha.probe/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/01/haditha.probe/index.html</guid><description>A U.S. naval investigation team has wrapped up its investigation into the murders of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, allegedly at the hands of U.S. Marines, U.S. military officials told CNN.</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: Probe faults Haditha response</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/09/haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/09/haditha/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. general leading an investigation into civilian deaths in Haditha, Iraq, has concluded that senior leaders of the Marines failed to sufficiently investigate when faced with conflicting information, a defense official told CNN on Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Marine response to Iraq deaths faulted</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/08/report.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/08/report.haditha/index.html</guid><description>A leading U.S. military commander has determined that "some senior Marine officers were negligent in failing to investigate more aggressively" the Haditha killing allegations in Iraq, The New York Times reported Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gunmen, bombers target Iraqi holy sites </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Insurgents in Iraq struck three Sunni mosques and a Shiite holy place on Friday, the holiest day of the Muslim week, killing at least 10 people and wounding 55 others.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 10:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>2 U.S. troops missing, 1 killed in attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/16/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/16/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A U.S. soldier was killed and two were unaccounted for Friday after they came under attack at a traffic checkpoint in Yusufiya, about 20 miles southwest of Baghdad.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Attorney: Marine says no Haditha massacre</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/11/marine.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/11/marine.haditha/index.html</guid><description>The senior Marine sergeant in charge during an incident in Haditha, Iraq, last November, says there was no massacre of civilians, and there was no wrongdoing on the Marines' part, his attorney told CNN.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ivins: Wow! Some real diplomacy!</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/08/ivins.foreignpolicy/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/08/ivins.foreignpolicy/index.html</guid><description>It occasionally occurs to me that if I could understand the Bush administration's foreign policy, I might like it. After months of threatening Iran with everything up to and including nuclear war, we are now full of Sweet Reason and offering to have diplomatic talks with the very people we have been denouncing as Beyond Vile.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Photos seem to contradict Marine version of Haditha killings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraq.probes/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/07/iraq.probes/index.html</guid><description>Pentagon sources say some of the most incriminating evidence against Marines under investigation in the deaths of civilians at Haditha is a set of photographs taken by another group of Marines who came along afterward and helped clean up the scene.</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Biden: Rumsfeld should step down</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/04/haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/04/haditha/index.html</guid><description>Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should step down amid an investigation into whether U.S. troops covered up the suspected intentional killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Sen. Joseph Biden said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The ghosts of Haditha</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/04/time.cover/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/04/time.cover/index.html</guid><description>The killings of 24 Iraqis one morning last November may mark a terrible turning point in America's already shaky presence in Iraq.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 15:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi PM: U.S. rushed Ishaqi probe</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/03/iraq.inquiries/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/03/iraq.inquiries/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military rushed to judgment in its exoneration of U.S. troops involved in the March 15 raid that killed civilians in Ishaqi, said an aide to Iraq's prime minister on Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eight confined in connection with Iraqi's death</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraqi.investigation/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraqi.investigation/index.html</guid><description>Eight troops being investigated in the death of an Iraqi civilian in April are being held in a military jail and four others have been restricted to their base, a U.S. Marine spokesman said Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ex-JAG attorney: Iraq investigations face obstacles</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/cnna.vieux/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/cnna.vieux/index.html</guid><description>The Pentagon is investigating the deaths of more than two dozen Iraqi civilians, including women and children, by U.S. troops.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Troops cleared in Ishaqi killings</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraqi.probes/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/02/iraqi.probes/index.html</guid><description>Investigators have determined U.S. soldiers followed proper procedure and will not face charges for the deaths of at least four Iraqis during a raid near the town of Ishaqi on March 15, Pentagon sources said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Greenfield: Echoes of another war, another massacre</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/greenfield.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/greenfield.haditha/index.html</guid><description>Consider these facts: Americans in combat, in a far-away country, fighting against an enemy that may lurk behind every wall, in every home.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Molly Ivins: No excuses this time</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/ivins.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/01/ivins.haditha/index.html</guid><description>So, Haditha becomes another of the names at which we wince, along with Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and My Lai. Tell you what: Let's not use the "stress of combat" excuse this time. According to neighbors, the girls in the family of Younis Khafif -- the one who kept pleading in English: "I am a friend. I am good" -- were 14, 10, 5, 3 and 1. What are they going to say? "Under stress of combat, we thought the baby was 2"?</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. military mourns 'tragic' Haditha deaths</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/01/military.training/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/01/military.training/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military offered condolences on Thursday to relatives of 24 Iraqi civilians killed in Haditha last November in events that are now being investigated as possible murder by Marines.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:12:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The shame Of Kilo Company</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/31/haditha.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/31/haditha.tm/index.html</guid><description>The outfit known as Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, wasn't new to Iraq last year when it moved into Haditha, a Euphrates River farming town about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad. Several members of the unit were on their second tour of Iraq; one was on his third. The men in Kilo Company were veterans of ferocious house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. Their combat experience seemed to prepare them for the ordeal of serving in an insurgent stronghold like Haditha, the kind of place where the enemy attacks U.S. troops from the cover of mosques, schools and homes and uses civilians as shields, complicating Marine engagement rules to shoot only when threatened. In Haditha, says a Marine who has been there twice, "you can't tell a bad guy until he shoots you."</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 17:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. probes killing of pregnant Iraqi</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military is investigating reports its soldiers killed two women, one of whom was pregnant, in Samarra, according to the U.S. military and an official with the Joint Coordination Center in Salaheddin province.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 13:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bush: If Marines killed civilians, they'll be punished</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/haditha/index.html</guid><description>If an investigation finds Marines killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians last year, "there will be punishment," President Bush said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 06:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sumaidaie: Marines shot my cousin</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/30/cnna.sumaidaie/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/30/cnna.sumaidaie/index.html</guid><description>President Bush welcomed the new Iraqi ambassador to the United States at a White House credentialing ceremony Tuesday, saying, "The United States stands ready to help the Iraqi democracy succeed."</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 00:11:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A reporter's shock at the Haditha allegations</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/30/damon.iraq.btsc/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/30/damon.iraq.btsc/index.html</guid><description>It actually took me a while to put all the pieces together -- that I know these guys, the U.S. Marines at the heart of the alleged massacre of Iraqi civilians in Haditha.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 12:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sources: Lawmakers told to brace for Haditha fallout</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/29/marines.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/29/marines.haditha/index.html</guid><description>Some members of Congress have been told to brace for the fallout from potential charges of murder and cover-up stemming from an inquiry into an alleged massacre of Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines, sources say.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 01:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Senate panel to hold hearings on atrocity reports</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/28/marines.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/28/marines.haditha/index.html</guid><description>The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold hearings into allegations that U.S. Marines committed an atrocity last year in the Iraqi city of Haditha, the panel's chairman said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2006 22:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pentagon sources: Civilians likely killed without provocation</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/marines.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/26/marines.haditha/index.html</guid><description>An ongoing military investigation supports allegations that U.S. Marines in November killed 24 innocent Iraqi civilians without being provoked, senior Pentagon sources said Friday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 18:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Civilian deaths send top Marine to Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/25/hagee.iraq/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/25/hagee.iraq/index.html</guid><description>As the military investigates two reports of Marines in Iraq allegedly killing innocent civilians, Gen. Michael Hagee, commandant of the Marine Corps, left for Iraq on Thursday to talk about use of force.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 20:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Photos fuel probe into how Iraqi civilians died</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/01/iraq.haditha/index.html</guid><description>Military investigators are reviewing photographs indicating that Iraqi civilians, including women and children, may have been shot deliberately by U.S. Marines in Haditha last November, according to a military source familiar with the  ongoing investigation.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 16:48:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Probe of Iraqi civilian deaths includes children</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/17/iraq.inquiry/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/17/iraq.inquiry/index.html</guid><description>A U.S. military criminal investigation into the deaths of 15 Iraqi civilians last year includes a probe into how several children were killed, CNN learned Friday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sources: U.S. probes 15 Iraqi civilian deaths</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/03/16/iraq.inquiry/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/03/16/iraq.inquiry/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military has opened a criminal investigation into the deaths last year of 15 Iraqi civilians in the western city of Haditha, several military sources told CNN.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Marines find insurgency's deadly tools in Haditha </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/07/iraq.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/07/iraq.haditha/index.html</guid><description>While the insurgents in Haditha may have faded away for the time being, they left their mark behind.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2005 08:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Offensive finds little resistance, many bombs</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/05/iraq.haditha/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/10/05/iraq.haditha/index.html</guid><description>An eerie quiet was interrupted Wednesday by Marines exploding some of the 32 bombs they have found as they attempt to wrest this Euphrates River town in western Iraq from insurgents.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Four die in latest Baghdad violence</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/06/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>As U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers continued their offensive in western Iraq, insurgents attacked Iraqi officials and a U.S. convoy in Baghdad, killing at least four people within the last 24 hours, authorities said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2005 14:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. offensive begins after attacks on Marines</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/05/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/05/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The U.S. military has launched a new offensive against insurgents and foreign fighters in western Iraq's Anbar province, an area that has been the scene of a string of deadly attacks on American forces this week.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dad: Marine felt mission 'a bit fruitless'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/08/04/marines.reax/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/08/04/marines.reax/index.html</guid><description>The father of one of the Marines killed this week in Iraq said his son felt the U.S. mission was "a bit fruitless," because insurgents always returned after the military flushed them out.</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2005 02:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Week's U.S. death toll in Iraq rises to 27</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/04/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>The American death toll this week in Iraq rose to 27.</description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2005 08:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six Marines killed near Haditha identified</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/03/marines.identified/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/03/marines.identified/index.html</guid><description>The Pentagon on Wednesday identified six Marines who it said were killed near Haditha, Iraq, on Monday as a "result of enemy small-arms fire while conducting dismounted operations."</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:49:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fourteen Marines, civilian killed in bombing</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/03/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/03/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A roadside bomb blast killed 14 Marines and a civilian interpreter Wednesday as they rode in a vehicle near Haditha, Iraq, U.S. military officials said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Six snipers among seven Marines killed in Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/02/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/02/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Six sniper team members were among seven Marines whose deaths in northwestern Iraq were announced Tuesday by U.S. commanders, bringing the number of American troops killed in the war to more than 1,800.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. unleashes 'surprise' offensive in western Iraq</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/25/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/25/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>U.S. forces launched a wide-ranging offensive Wednesday against insurgents in western Iraq, involving about 1,000 American and Iraqi troops  in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, the Marines said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2005 12:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. deaths in Iraq surpass 1,600</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/08/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05/08/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Total U.S. troop casualties in the Iraq war passed 1,600 Sunday, according to a CNN count, when two soldiers were killed near Khaldiya and a third died in Samarra.</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2005 11:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Talabani: More than 50 bodies pulled from Tigris</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/20/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/20/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Iraqis made two grisly discoveries Wednesday, finding more than 50 bodies in the Tigris River and 20 Iraqi soldiers shot to death west of the capital, officials said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bombing near Mosul kills 8, wounds 2</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/27/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>Eight people were killed and at least two were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded inside a municipal building in northern Iraq, multinational forces officials said.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S., Iraqis continue major insurgent roundup</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/26/iraq.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/02/26/iraq.main/index.html</guid><description>A major joint operation of U.S. and Iraqi forces continued for a seventh day as troops searched for suspected insurgents Saturday in towns along the Euphrates river in violent Anbar province.</description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:22:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Iraqi police prime targets of insurgency</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/iraqi.police/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/11/iraqi.police/index.html</guid><description>The weapon: A powerful car bomb. The target: A police station. The toll: At least six policemen blown up. This scene and the refrain from Iraq's current leader strike a familiar chord.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:21:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>