Muslim GI gets 14 months for avoiding duties in Iraq By Rick Emert, Stars and Stripes European edition, Saturday, June 5, 2004 BAMBERG, Germany - A 1st Infantry Division Engineer Brigade soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq citing religious beliefs was sentenced Thursday to 14 months' confinement and given a bad-conduct discharge. During his court-martial, Sgt. 1st Class Abdullah Webster, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of disobeying a lawful order from a superior commissioned officer and one count of missing movement. When his unit was deploying on Feb. 8, Webster - the battalion security noncommissioned officer - told...