Published on Tuesday, August 26, 2008
By SONJA BJELLAND
A former Marine told a Riverside courtroom he heard gunshots and saw a man lying dead in a pool of blood minutes after storming a house in Fallujah, Iraq.
Cory Carlisle, an infantry point man in the squad led by Jose Luis Nazario Jr., testified that he never actually saw anyone killed in the house during the storming of that Iraqi city in November 2004. But he did see Nazario standing in a room with other detainees and heard gunshots from outside the room.
"One man was lying on the ground. We didn't look too far into it, but you could tell he was dead. Sgt. Nazario was returning his weapon to the ready," Carlisle said.
He said he knew two men were dead from the looks on the faces of the other detainees.
"It's something I wouldn't forget. That face, the dread," he testified. "... That's the face I saw on both of these men
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