Later, a U.S. soldier at a checkpoint found a hand grenade in the tool bag of a bicycle. The teenage boy riding the bike claimed that it wasn’t his and that someone else must have put it there. The troopers had little choice but to let the boy go; possession of a hand grenade is not enough to get a conviction for insurgent activities in an Iraqi court, they say.
The hell with what Iraqi courts say. We are doing the fighting and spending and dying. Either they do what we say or we leave and let them die by the millions.
“Later, a U.S. soldier at a checkpoint found a hand grenade in the tool bag of a bicycle. The teenage boy riding the bike claimed that it wasn’t his and that someone else must have put it there. The troopers had little choice but to let the boy go; possession of a hand grenade is not enough to get a conviction for insurgent activities in an Iraqi court, they say.