#Anonymous says it will #leak giant cache of #Iraq war e-mails
Anonymous has struck — and struck again. 
A member of the loosely organized hacker group Anonymous in Paris in January. Anonymous members often wear Guy Fawkes masks. (Fred Dufour - AFP/Getty Images)
Early Friday, the FBI said that hackers from the well-known collective had intercepted and released a confidential conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard.
A few hours later, Anonymous announced that it would release a massive archive of e-mails concerning the 2005 deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians during a U.S. raid in the town of Haditha.
The announcement states that Anonymous stole 2.6 gigabytes of e-mail belonging to Puckett Faraj, a law firm that represents Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, who is accused of leading the group of Marines in Haditha. The Web site of Puckett Faraj is not currently loading, and Gawker is reporting that the site was hacked.
#Anonymous reveals Haditha massacre emails
03 February, 2012, via @PinkPr0xy
Anonymous have unveiled their second major release for this week’s installment of FuckFBIFriday. Their target this time around is Frank Wuterich, the US Marine that admitted to killing Iraqi civilians — and received no jail time for his crime.
Early Friday afternoon, members of the loose-knit online collective Anonymous began circulating news that the website for Puckett and Faraj, the high-profile attorneys that represented Sgt. Frank Wuterich in his recent trial, had been hacked. Wuterich admitted to leading Marines into two civilian homes in Haditha, Iraq in 2005, massacring 24 civilians including women, children and an elderly man confined to a wheelchair.
In response, hacktivists with Anonymous have uncovered gigabytes worth of correspondence from Sgt. Wuterich’s attorneys and affiliated parties.
Last month, a military tribunal finally finished their hearing on Sgt. Wuterich, more than six years after the notorious slaughter. Insiders reported before his sentencing that he was expected to receive only 90 days behind bars. When the case ended, he was sentenced to zero.
Anonymous members have hacked into the website for Sgt. Wuterich’s attorneys and have since defaced it with a detailed message explaining how the self-proclaimed “cold-blooded killer” became their latest target.
#Iraq to take legal action for deadly #US raid
The Iraqi government has announced it will take legal action over the 24 civilians killed in a US army raid in 2005 in the Western city of Haditha. The announcement reflects public fury after US marine, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich convicted of the killings dodged a jail sentence, receiving only a pay-cut and a demotion on Wednesday. A government spokesperson said Iraq has a duty to ensure justice for the families of those who died, and will follow up all judiciary procedures relating to the case. Wuterich is the last of 8 troops to have been charged in connection to the killings, leading to one acquittal and 6 dismissals.
Marine's Light Sentence for #Iraqi Deaths Sparks Anger
A light sentence handed down to U.S. Marine Frank Wuterich for his guilty plea in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in 2005 has shocked and angered Iraqis, military experts and Internet users.
“It’s upsetting,” said Basam Radha, an Iraqi-American activist. “These forces are out there trying to liberate us, spending billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money to liberate us, and these people are doing exactly the opposite thing.”
Wuterich, 31, the leader of a squad in the Iraq war, has admitted to giving an order that resulted in the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, in Haditha, Iraq. The incident occurred after a roadside bomb went off, killing a fellow Marine, and Wuterich ordered his soldiers “to shoot first, ask questions later” as they searched nearby houses.
Wuterich pleaded guilty Monday to dereliction, a charge reduced from the voluntary and involuntary manslaughter charges he originally faced. At a sentencing Tuesday, he received a demotion, but was not sentenced to any jail time for the killings.
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Said Ron Meister, a former Navy JAG officer and military judge who is now the chairman of the National Institute for Military Justice, “If you contrast individuals who the U.S. has incarcerated under very harsh conditions in places like Guantanamo for close to a decade for just training with terrorist groups but not actually committing murders, and look at where they end up and conditions they serve them, and contrast them with a U.S. soldier who was responsible for the killing of over 20 people, it’s hard to be pleased with the comparison.”
Internet users seemed to agree, taking to Twitter to call Wuterich a “cold-blooded baby killer,” and classify the sentence as “government terrorism.”
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