Original sentence: ) for libel because of Murtha's characterization of the incident saying the Marines killed the civilians "in cold blood.In August of 2006 a commission reviewing the killings found probable cause for charging the Marines.On 19 November 2005, 24 Iraqi noncombatants, including 11 women and children, were killed by 12 Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.Some allege the massacre was in retribution for an incident earlier in the day in which US Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Marines from Kilo Company
Edited sentence: "  The impetus for Time's massacre investigation came not from, as Time reporter Tim McGirk's first story stated a " journalism student", but rather from 43-year-old Taher Thabet al-Hadithi,  who in midlife was starting a second career as a reporter.) for slander because Murtha claimed on television that the Marines killed the civilians "in cold blood.Abdul Rahman al-Mashandani--no relation to the Reuters reporter--is an employee.Although many bloggers claim this was  "a group of two people: Hadithi and Ali Omar Abrahem al-Mashhadani, a Reuters News Service reporter who was previously arrested by U.Footage from military drones which overflew Haditha that day was submitted to a hearing in Camp Pendleton, CA, but it could not reveal what transpired inside the houses.He videotaped the aftermath of the carnage in four family houses near his own home in Anbar province.In August 2006, a Navy commission reviewing the killings found probable cause to charge the Marines for unpremeditated murder.It has been alleged that McGirk’s sources were sympathetic to the insurgency because they lived in a town which was home to many insurgents who planted roadside bombs and fired at American patrols.Marines in his home town of Ramadi and underwent weeks of interrogation at the infamous Abu Ghraib Prison,"  the Sunni NGO had 14 regional offices, 10 staff members, and six board members.On 19 November 2005, 24 Iraqi noncombatants, including 11 women and children, were supposedly killed by 12 Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines.Some allege the killings was in retribution for an incident earlier in the day in which US Marine Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas was killed in a roadside bomb attack on Marines from Kilo Company.Time identified al-Hadithi as head of the Hammurabi Organization for Human Rights and Democracy Monitoring