Editor’s note: This piece has been updated to include additional corroboration from contemporaneous notes taken by journalist David Morris, who was embedded with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines in Ramadi in July 2006, and retired Marine Colonel Ray Gerber, the battalion’s intelligence officer.
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Long-simmering allegations that “American Sniper” Chris Kyle shot civilians in Ramadi, Iraq, are back in the news after right-wing outlets surfaced comments from Graham Platner, an ex-Marine eyewitness who made them a year before he ran for Senate in Maine.
Platner, a Democrat challenging incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins, made the comments in 2024, fir…
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