Specfically there is no dispute about which of our units were involved, specifically it was "3rd Battalion, 1st Marines".
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060601-5.htmlThere is a lot of dispute about what happened over the course of several hours after 1 marine was killed by an IED, but there is currently no dispute that after this event was over 24 unarmed civilians were dead.
Here is an MSNBC compilation of the eyewitness accounts of what happened:
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“The Americans came into the room where my father was praying and shot him. They went to my grandmother and killed her, too,” Iman says.
During the raid, Abdul Hamid's house caught fire. Witnesses say Marines then moved next door to the house of Younis Hamid. Nine people were inside, and eight were killed — five of them children.
Twelve-year-old Safa says she survived by hiding under the bed.
“They came in and shot all of us,” she says. “I pretended I was dead.”
Witnesses say Marines then moves to a third location — a taxi parked by the side of the road. In it, residents say, were four university students and a driver. A witness watching from a nearby rooftop says Marines took the five men out of the car and executed them."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13053200/The execution of civilians took place over a period of three hours. Any suggestion that this was a 'split second decision' is nonsense. There is no suggestion that any of the victims of this massacre were armed or were in any way involved in the IED attack. There is no dispute about who the perptrators were. There are, so far, no eyewitnesses contradicting the widely published accounts of the survivors.