Iraqis Angered After Plea Bargain Over Massacre in Haditha January 24, 2012, 9:19 pm An article in Wednesday's Times reports on the outrage in Iraq after news broke of the sentencing of a Marine considered the ringleader in the 2005 massacre in Haditha, in which 24 Iraqis died. The Marine, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, 31, was sentenced on Tuesday to a reduction in rank but avoided any jail time after pleading guilty to dereliction of duty on Monday, according to news agency reports. The Times" Michael S. Schmidt writes: The American military's investigation into the killings was in the news in December, when 400 pages of secret interrogations were discovered by a reporter for The Times at a junkyard outside Baghdad. The documents, which were supposed to have been destroyed, confirmed much of what happened at Haditha and provided a glimpse of the enormous strains on soldiers in Iraq.