US marine pleads not guilty to Iraq massacre

A US marine charged for taking part in a 2005 massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians pleaded not guilty on Thursday at Camp Pendleton, California. Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich faces nine counts of voluntary manslaughter and other charges for his role in 24 deaths, many of them women and children, in the Iraqi town of Haditha on 19 November 2005. Jury selection will resume Friday before opening statements at the court martial of the last US Marine charged over the notorious killing of civilians in Iraq. Read more