Posted on 09/02/2006 11:42:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
PHOENIX - An Army investigator has recommended the death penalty for four soldiers accused of murder during a raid in Iraq.
Lt. Col. James P. Daniel Jr. made the recommendation in report obtained Saturday by The Associated Press.
Daniel found several aggravating factors that warrant a sentence of death in the case of four soldiers accused of killing three men during the May raid in the Salahuddin province.
It's always nice to see FR's ACLU sympathizers come out on threads, huh?.
Thanks for sharing that link, btw.
Not quite.Don't forget McVeigh.
Another PC field grade officer looking to make bird. This is unwarranted.
Bingo. His recommendation may not get past this AP article. The next person in his chain of command may squash his fantasy of trying our finest for the death penalty.
Crazy -- remember Hasan Akbar, the one who grenaded his own men, killing 2 and wounding 14? He got the D.P., and supposedly the last military execution in the US was in 1961. Is it any wonder that if this case is dropped, you won't hear THAT from the DBM?
If the death penalty is to have any meaning, it should apply here, assuming they are found guilty. And I think it should be carried out by firing squad in the town square where it happened.
Certainly if I were part of the same unit as these men, I'd see it as an opportunity to erase the shame they had brought on their comrades.
-ccm
Isn't it.
I missed the pulled post : (
You are quite welcome for the link : )
The next news headline will be something like, "Drop in re-enlistments indicates growing dissolution with the war in Iraq." Just wait!
What stories have you read that state what you claim? I have not seen this anywhere myself. If you can provide links to show this that would be helpful or if you are just writing without factual evidence soldiers reputations are being tarnished.
OMG ping
FR thread
Soldiers Say Ordered to Kill Young Men
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670251/posts
AP via Yahoo! ^ | July 21, 2006 | ALICIA A. CALDWELL
Posted on 07/21/2006 7:18:37 PM PDT by CrawDaddyCA
If this soldier were a civilian who had conspired with his friends to follow a 14-year-old girl home, rape her, and kill her, everyone on this board would have screamed for his head, and rightfully so.
Is there something about putting on our country's uniform that makes him immune to such charges? If anything, this is worse. It's a disgrace to the uniform, the unit, and the entire country.
If the charges are true, then this man should be shot at dawn the day after his conviction.
Are we having fun yet?
OKAY LUNATIC. They are missing you at DU and the Kos play ground.
article Update
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An Army investigator has recommended that four soldiers accused of murder in a raid in Iraq should face the death penalty, 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.
Troops going wild, and just doing it, hurts American foreign policy. At lot is a stake as to whether of not soldiers act professionally, and in ways that credit this nation, rather than disgrace it. Thus, if cold blooded murder is involved, death is the appropriate punishment. JMO.
'liberal scum ...will be in favor of death penalty...
i'm sure Susan Sarandon will organize a protest.....NOT !
But, Americans sure should. Our military men and women were sent to do a mission. And, every day on TV, we see for ourselves the cowardly acts of the terrorists...hiding behind innocent people and doing everything they can to kill Americans and innocent people. And, they have no qualms about lying. Our soldiers in Iraq LIVE this every day. God bless our military and their families for the sacrifices they make to try to protect the rest of us.
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