Posted on 07/09/2006 11:58:43 AM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, July 9, 2006 – Charges have been preferred against four U.S. soldiers accused of rape and murder in connection with the deaths of four Iraqi civilians in March. A fifth soldier has been accused of dereliction of duty for failing to report the offenses, U.S. officials announced today. The five soldiers were charged yesterday in connection with their alleged participation in the rape and murder of a young Iraqi woman and the murders of three members of her family. The fifth soldier was charged with dereliction of duty for his failure to report the rape and murder of these Iraqi civilians, but is not alleged to have been a direct participant in the rape and killings, officials said in a statement.
All are charged with conspiring with former Army Pfc. Steven D. Green to commit these crimes. Green, 21, a former 101st Airborne Division soldier, was arrested June 30 in connection with the incident, according to a July 3 announcement by the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Western District of Kentucky.
Green was deployed from September 2005 to April 2006 and was discharged from the Army May 16. Army officials declined to disclose the circumstances of his discharge, citing privacy protections under the Health Information Privacy Protection Act.
The preferral of court-marital charges is merely an accusation, according to today's statement. "Those accused are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," officials stated.
The next step in the legal process will be an investigation pursuant to Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Article 32 investigations are similar to grand jury hearings in civilian courts.
(From a Multinational Corps Iraq news release.)
Btt
Yep! Read the books Slander and Treason by AC and you'll understand fully.
Possibly 14 years old.
Looks like muslims have a choice to make. Exhume her body and let it be examined or not. If they choose the later the charges must be dropped. Isn't that what we call a hebeas corpus?
Thank God for that because the media already has them guilty. Without her body, they don't have a case against them. It would be a he said...they said.
My thinking now is, if they don't allow her body to be examined, they are hiding something.
The preferral of court-marital charges is merely an accusation, according to today's statement. "Those accused are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," officials stated.
I've been hearing reports all day on the radio which say that they were CHARGED. No how, no way has any news reporter said that "charged" means they will be investigated. People will think they have been found guilty. The MSM disgusts me once again.
What I have seen is descrepencies in the published reports, and things in the story that don't quite add up. However, this IS the media we're dealing with, so some of it might be attributed to that. Still, I'm waiting to see what is revealed in court.
In this case I would think the opposite would be true. It would be their way of screaming for more bloody Jihad against our soldiers. You know, the infidel oppressive murdering Americans are raping all our women and little girls.
I don't know about Iraq, but in Afghanistan and Pakistan, sometimes gang-rape is a punishment for women for a variety of alleged offense. Irony.
That's what I'll do. They will never get a fair shake with our military hating media.
I had not thought of this one. I so want this not to be true, I have to guard myself but bottom line - my heart breaks for this young girl.
If these soldiers are indeed guilty, it takes absolutely nothing away from my awe, love, respect, and support for the rest of our troops.
The press are scum.
The press are terrorist loving, American military hating scum.
Reported: Two witnesses (soldiers) confessed to planning, being accomplices to; and then covering up a rape and four murders.
During counseling after the deaths of the three soldiers that Central Command learned about the allegations that Americans, not insurgents, were responsible for the quadruple killing in Mahmoudiya, the military says.
On those last two pages, they looked like they said the same thing.
Is Green the one they said was a psyopath?(spel?)
Yes, I've read those stories.
Yes, anti-social personality disorder.
Not bright to make such statement in trying to intimidate the court and threaten to visit vigilanti-justice on the innocent.
The more I hear from these witnesses, the more I doubt the story. If I were an American soldier in Iraq, I'd never be taken alive. I'd rather take a bullet then and there than be tortured like those two soldiers were.
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