Strange these last two paragraphs about houses burned in the area, impliedly on the same day. They don't seem to match any of the three houses attacked by the marines who were road-bombed, as those three houses were (apparently) all being investigated the next day.


"Another point of dispute is whether some houses were destroyed by fire or by airstrikes. Some Iraqis reported that the Marines burned homes in the area of the attack, but two people familiar with the case, including Hackett, the lawyer, said warplanes conducted airstrikes, dropping 500-pound bombs on more than one house.

That is significant for any possible court-martial proceedings, because it would indicate that senior commanders, who must approve such strikes and who would also use aircraft to assess their effects, were paying attention to events in Haditha that day."