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Joshua Belile, 23, apologized and said the song was not tied in any way to allegations that Marines killed 24 unarmed civilians in Haditha last year.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>“It’s a song that I made up and it was nothing more than something supposed to be funny, based off a catchy line of a movie,” he said in Wednesday’s Daily News of Jacksonville. </p><div class="aC"><div class="textSmallGrey w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCMSN&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>In the four-minute video called “Hadji Girl,” a singer who appears to be a Marine tells a cheering audience about gunning down members of an Iraqi woman’s family after they confront him with automatic weapons.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Maj. 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