For AP/Yahoooooooo to publish something like this on a long holiday weekend when no one is paying attention seems very odd to me.
For the most applicable damage they could do to these soldiers and to the US Military as a whole, all the while kissing the butts of their Terrorist buddies, you'd think it would be a regular old Monday Morning story posted then to get the most mileage out of it.
@ssholes. What part of "We're at war!" do these people fail to understand? Oh, that would be all three words. *Rolleyes*
I'll wait, as I always do in these cases, to see what the military actually does about it. With the exception of them not trying and executing John Kerry for Treason the moment he set foot again on Americna Soil, they do a pretty good job of policing themselves. ;)
Gee, guys, could we at least have a trial first?
Must appease the Muzzies.
This doesn't sound like an award of the Medal of Honor to me....
Does his recommendation carry enough weight for the title Army Recommends Death for Accused GIs to be accurate?
On the radio news every 15 minutes this afternoon! Surely once a day or once a week or once would be enough.
I am ok executing these guys if they did something wrong that merits it, but I want to see other criminals executed then, too. Why, for instance, is Saddam the woodchipper still alive? Or most of those Abu Ghraib animals or any of a selection of Gitmo scum? Or assorted deserters? Why are they still alive?
give them a slap on the wrist!
You bastards do this and you will pronounce the death sentence of America! Back off!!!!!
WTF??? I heared nothing to give me an impression these men are guilty at all!
"They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan......."
WE WERE INOCENT....
I will do what the Military should have done. I will wait for all the evidence to be brought in and for the trial results.
More"Fodder"for our enemies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When is that spineless president of ours going to stop this nonsense?
Memo to bleeding hearts: "Those who abjure* violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf" George Orwell, 'Notes on Nationalism' (1945).
*abjure: 3. to avoid or shun (Random House)
more detailed report for the freepers
PHOENIX (Sept. 2) - An Army investigator has recommended that four soldiers accused of murder in an Iraqi raid face the death penalty.
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 a May raid in Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Raymond L. Girouard, Spc. William B. Hunsaker, Pfc. Corey R. Clagett, and Spc. Juston R. Graber, all of the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, were accused in the deaths.
The soldiers have claimed they were ordered to "kill all military age males" during a raid on an island on a canal in the northern Salahuddin province. According to statements from some of the soldiers, they were told the target was an al-Qaida training camp and that every military-age male should be killed.
Hunsaker told investigators that he and Clagett were attacked by the three men and shot them in self-defense. Clagett said he was hit in the face and Hunsaker claimed he was stabbed during the attack.
"I had felt this action necessary for they had tried to use deadly force on me and my comrade," Hunsaker wrote in a statement about the shooting.
Prosecutors, however, argued that 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 was a witness to the killings.
Girouard, the most senior soldier charged, faces several additional charges including sexual harassment and carrying a personal weapon on duty.
In the 10-page report dated Thursday, Daniel also recommends that Graber not face charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
"I believe Spc. Graber...did not enter an agreement but followed an order whether he agreed or not," Daniel wrote in his recommendation. "There is a difference between obedience and agreement."
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 case will now be forwarded to Army officials who will decide if Daniel's recommendation should be followed. The U.S. military has not executed a soldier since the 1960 hanging of a soldier convicted rape and attempted murder.
The soldiers are expected to be tried at Fort Campbell. They have been jailed in Kuwait since their arrests earlier this year.
convenient I think
Lt. Col. James P. Daniel Jr.AKA: The Enemy