FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2012 file photo, United States Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives at a court room at Camp Pendleton with lead defense attorney Neal Puckett in Camp Pendeton, Calif. Opening arguments in Wuterich's will be Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 _ more than six years after his Marine squad in 2005 killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children in the town of Haditha. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2012 file photo, United States Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich arrives at a court room at Camp Pendleton with lead defense attorney Neal Puckett in Camp Pendeton, Calif. Opening arguments in Wuterich's will be Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 _ more than six years after his Marine squad in 2005 killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children in the town of Haditha. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
SAN DIEGO, California (AP) ? A jury of combat U.S. Marines who all served in Iraq will hear opening statements in the trial of the last defendant of a major Iraq war crime case.
Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich is standing trial Monday more than six years after he led a Marine squad that killed 24 Iraqis, including unarmed women and children, in the town of Haditha.
The court martial is taking place at Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego, and is scheduled to last a month.
Wuterich has said he regretted the loss of civilian lives but believed he was operating ? after a roadside bomb exploded ? within military combat rules.
The 2005 killings are considered among the war's defining moments.
The charges against Wuterich include involuntary manslaughter.
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