Posted on 09/03/2006 4:20:13 PM PDT by npg
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.
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 province. According to statements from some of the soldiers, they were told that the target was an al-Qaida training camp.
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.
Shame on US if this happens !!!
Do you really think they were ordered to "kill all military-age males"?
A similar post was made earlier, and a number of people commented that the soldiers should be put to death (without first having been convicted). I want to know why the title is "Army Recommends Death for Accused GIs" when it was just one investigator? Is the Army just this one investigator?
The headline writer at the Star-Tribune chose to use a different word for "recommends".
"Execution urged if soldiers convicted".
Absolutely insane!
If a higher up ordered it the higher up may not admit it.
We shouldn't be prosecuting our own like this for acts committed in a war.
War is war and you have to know that you can defend yourself in a war and carry out attacks without having your own country turn on you.
We let pedophiles and other garbage off with a slap on the wrist, and let illegal aliens flood into our country, but if you're actually serving the USA, we'll come down on you with both feet.
A cover up? Shouldn't the Commander-in-Chief step in?
Sandy Berger
it is despicable that the DOD would use these men to put on a show just to reassure the Muslim world.
I'm tired of this crap.
It will eventually have to be all military-age Muslims, or we Infidels are finished.
"Do you really think they were ordered to "kill all military-age males"?"
I could believe this order being given if the CoC felt they had dead to rights intel that a structure contained terrorists/insurgents. This could be collateral damage from the terrorists not wearing uniforms and the coalition tolerating it.
Have any illegal combatants been punished for not wearing uniforms and failing to seperate themselves from civilians? I've heard of none.
If thats a yes, don't you think our President should back them up?
There is no murder in a war zone.
I'm W-A-Y B-E-Y-O-N-D tired of this crap, n. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
It's just a recommendation (or urge if you prefer), not a sentence. The jihadists and anti war loonies have to be appeased somehow!
Don't worry, I don't think these soldiers will be sentenced to anything like that or harshly. If it were up to me, I'd exonerate the soldiers completely.
To go from "we support the troops but not the war" to kill the troops with 1 investigator--when muslims say repent or die?
You go to war, and you may die. You kill the wrong muzzie and you die. They say you repent or die.
When is someone going to get the stones to lay it out like it really is?
To the anti-war crowd, let's be clear: just because you don't want to fight doesn't mean they won't kill you. Grow up and grow a pair.
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