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<p>In the entire episode of the "Phoney Soldier" comments (in which Rush Limbaugh was dead on, we seem to have forgotten this "phoney," but very dangerous soldier.</p> <p>Sgt. Asan Akbarin 2003 threw grenades into tents at a 101st Airborne Division command center, killing a fellow serviceman and injuring several others.</p>

A GENERAL has affirmed the death sentence for a US Army sergeant convicted of murdering two fellow soldiers in a grenade attack in Kuwait at the outset of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the army said today. Sergeant Hasan Akbar, 35, is the first US soldier to face the death penalty for killing another soldier since the end of the Vietnam War.

Colorado peace-niks have found a new hero. The featured speaker this weekend will be Abdul Henderson, the Marine who appeared in Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, saying that he would not return to Iraq if ordered to do so.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- During a pretrial hearing May 10, the defense for Sgt. Hasan Akbar, the Soldier accused of a grenade attack which killed two 101st Airborne Division Soldiers and wounded 14 others last year in Kuwait, requested a change of venue to place the court martial outside the Army. Calling the military a “specialized society” and the Army an even more “specialized subset,” defense attorney Capt. David Coombs also asked the court to strike the entire panel for the trial which was scheduled for mid-July at Fort Bragg. Coombs, speaking on behalf of the four-man defense team, said...

<p>Do you remember that story about the Army Sergeant who fragged his own men just after the invasion of Iraq last year? Let me refresh your memory.</p> <p>Sgt. Hasan Akbar of the 101st Airborne Division lobbed several grenades into the tents of his buddies, killing two and wounding fourteen others. Sgt. Akbar had recently converted to Islam before being assigned overseas prior to the Iraqi invasion and his family members said he was distraught because his fellow platoon members seemingly didn't like him .... so he slipped up to their tent in the night and blew them up.</p>