NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- A U.S. Marine charged in the deaths of civilians in Haditha, Iraq, told a U.S. television network that he would make the same decisions a second time.
Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich said he is sorry that several civilians, including women and children, were killed by him and the four men he commanded, but he does not believe he made any wrong decisions, CBS News reported Friday.
"There is nothing that I can possibly say to make up or make well the deaths of those women and children, and I am absolutely sorry it happened that day," Wuterich told CBS's "60 Minutes" in an interview to be broadcast Sunday.
"What I did that day, the decision that I made, I would make those decisions again today," he said. "Those are decisions that I made in a combat situation and I believe I had to make those decisions."
Wuterich defended the shooting deaths of five unnamed Iraqi men near the explosion of an improvised explosive device as well as the invasion of two homes that resulted in the deaths of three women and six children.
