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Sep 2, 10:36 PM EDT
Army Recommends Death in Iraq Slayings
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Associated Press Writer
An Army investigator has recommended that four soldiers accused of murder in a raid in Iraq should face the death penalty if convicted, according to a report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
Lt. Col. James P. Daniel Jr. concluded that the slayings were premeditated and warranted the death sentence based on evidence he heard at an August hearing. The case will now be forwarded to Army officials, who will decide whether Daniel's recommendation should be followed.
The soldiers, all from the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 101st Airborne Division's 187th Infantry Regiment, are accused of killing three Iraqi men taken from a house May 9 on a marshy island outside Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard, Spc. William B. Hunsaker, Pfc. Corey R. Clagett and Spc. Juston R. Graber have claimed they were ordered to "kill all military age males" during the raid on the island. According to statements from some of the soldiers, they were told the target was an al-Qaida training camp.
Hunsaker told investigators that he and Clagett were attacked by the three men, who were being handcuffed, and shot them in self-defense. Clagett said he was hit in the face, and Hunsaker claimed he was stabbed during the attack.
Prosecutors argue the soldiers conspired to kill the men and then altered the scene to fit their story. They contend Girouard stabbed Hunsaker as part of the killing plot.
Clagett, Girouard and Hunsaker also are accused of threatening to kill another soldier who witnessed the slayings. Girouard, the most senior soldier charged, faces several additional charges, including sexual harassment and carrying a personal weapon on duty.
Paul Bergrin, Clagett's civilian attorney, said he was surprised that Daniel recommended the case be taken to trial at all.
"I'm extremely disappointed and disheartened," Bergrin said Saturday. "They are being used as pawns in the war on terror. They followed the rules of engagement. They were confronted with violence by a known al-Qaida training camp member."
Other lawyers in the case, several of whom are deployed to Iraq, did not immediately respond to e-mail requests for comment.
The soldiers are expected to be tried at Fort Campbell. They have been jailed in Kuwait since their arrests this year.
The U.S. military has not executed a soldier since the 1960 hanging of a soldier convicted rape and attempted murder.
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Associated Press writer Alicia A. Caldwell, the El Paso, Texas, correspondent, reported this story from Glendale, Ariz.
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Jewish criminality came way before Herzl founding the ideology of Zionism.
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Posted : 02/09/2006 9:42 pm
kill all military age males
That's how war used to be done, and I don't support the zog's war in Iraq but I found this very interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if orders are leaning that way. Really that is the only honest warfare: wipe out the enemy.
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Posted : 03/09/2006 1:38 pm
I guess murder is defined by proximity, then? You can't shoot someone in the back of the head, but you can incinerate an entire neighborhood filled with men, women, and children with smart bombs? Gotta love ZOG's war rules.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
-Sir Francis Bacon
"Take the pain!"
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Posted : 03/09/2006 3:24 pm
ZOG executing misbehaving ZOGtroops is unlikely to happen. If they start imposing morality on their tools, their tools are likely to think twice about invading and slaughtering the inhabitants of European countries that slip out from jewish control. Morality can be catchy, even if it is only done to fit in with the crowd.
It is too bad for everyone that these soldiers and many more like them aren't executed. USZOG would be able to extend its life by decades if they got their ZOGlings under control (including all the different breeds of kwaps terrorizing the public).
Posted : 03/09/2006 9:46 pm