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They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Friday, January 14, 2005

12 months sentence for killing of Iraqi boy

Reuters: - An American soldier was sentenced on Friday to one year in jail for the murder of a severely wounded Iraqi teenager [Kassim Hassan] in a Baghdad slum district last year, the U.S. military said.

"Staff Sergeant Cardenas Alban was convicted on one count of murder and one count of conspiracy to murder at a court martial at the 1st Cavalry Division courthouse at Camp Liberty today" a military spokesman said. Link

BBCNews:The charges date back to 18 August last year when US-led forces were locked in fighting with supporters of radical Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr.

Horne's trial heard that a US army patrol fired on a rubbish truck they suspected of laying roadside bombs in Sadr City.
However, inside the lorry was a crew of teenage boys hoping to make some extra money on a night shift. Link

Newsweek (Dec 2004): On Aug. 18, Company C was hunting insurgents in Sadr City. Williams's squad stopped a dump truck, and an Iraqi climbed out. "Light him up!" the sergeant ordered, according to testimony, and the squad opened fire, killing the unarmed man. Williams and a squadmate reportedly got into an argument over which of them had scored Company C's first kill.

Staff Sgt. Johnny Horne pleaded guilty last week to killing a wounded 16-year-old Iraqi the same day. He insisted it was a mercy killing. A squadmate, Staff Sgt. Cardenas Alban, is awaiting trial.... Link

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