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Article: Bush `troubled' by reports of alleged massacre in Haditha.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- May 31, 2006
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Byline: Stephen J. Hedges
WASHINGTON _ President Bush and U.S. military leaders acknowledged Wednesday that an alleged rampage in November by U.S. Marines that may have involved the killing of two dozen civilians _ including small children _ has had a negative impact on the U.S. war effort in Iraq.
The Pentagon detailed the deployment of 1,500 additional troops to Anbar, Iraq's largest and perhaps most restive province. It includes the town of Haditha, where Marines on patrol allegedly killed 24 Iraqis Nov. 19 after one of their Marine colleagues was killed and two more were injured by a roadside explosive.
Though Time magazine reported on the ...