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| CAMP PENDLETON, California (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine who walked through
| two houses in Haditha, Iraqi minutes after other Marines killed occupants
| with grenades and guns found two wounded children pretending to be dead
| next to a deceased woman.
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| "I saw one breathe. That's how I knew," 1st Lt. William Kallop testified
| on Tuesday at a military tribunal at Camp Pendleton. "The little boy who
| breathed was about 6 or 7 and when I touched him, the little girl jumped
| up. She was about 11."
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| The two injured children were the only survivors of a Marine Corps
| assault on two Iraqi homes near the site of a bomb attack on a Marine
| convoy that left one Marine dead and two injured. Prosecutors contend
| that the surviving Marines swept through the town on a revenge spree,
| killing 24 civilians with grenades and guns.
| ...
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--bks