Dallas News
HAMANDIYA, Iraq – Before people talked about how Hashim Ibrahim Awad was killed, his friends shared tales about how the Americans wanted him to be an informant.
U.S. Marines had approached him several times, Mr. Awad's friends say he told them, asking him to help them find who was planting explosives in this small village outside Baghdad. Every time, Mr. Awad, in his 50s with a lame leg and bad eyesight, refused. His family considered the job shameful.
In an interview Friday with Knight Ridder, Mr. Awad's family members gave their version of what happened to him in the early morning hours of April 26. They said U.S. Marines dragged Mr. Awad from his home, killed him and then planted an AK-47 assault rifle and a shovel next to him to make him look like a terrorist.
The family members said American investigators have since harassed them, questioning their allegations in hours-long sessions that begin in the dead of night and last past dawn...
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