Bacos testifies for government against Marine corporal

"Prior to Bacos' testimony, a special agent from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service who led the investigation into what happened in Hamdania testified that Thomas was truthful except during the first time he interviewed the married father of a young daughter.

Special Agent James Connolly testified that two days after the killing, a flier written in Arabic distributed in Hamdania by an unknown source said that Awad had been killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb.

'If you're caught, you will get the same punishment,' the flier read.

Connolly testified that he thought the 'Marines who distributed it were arrogant,' although he later acknowledged that he could not be certain of the source of the flier."