ASsman
11-15-2004, 09:32 AM
In other developments:
* At least six Iraqi troops are killed in the city of Mosul as two police stations are stormed, witnesses say. Seven policemen and more than 30 rebels were killed in clashes with rebels in Mosul on Sunday, Iraqi officials say
* Militants release two female relatives of Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, kidnapped last Tuesday with his elderly male cousin, Ghazi. There is no word on him
* A US soldier is charged with "premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder" against an Iraqi.
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Rebels' last stand?
US troops in Falluja, backed by Iraqi soldiers, have pushed the insurgents to the southern edge of Falluja, beyond which the desert and more US troops await them, says our correspondent, who is with the US marines.............
......."I think what you're seeing now are some of the hardliners. They seem to be better equipped than some of the earlier ones... we've seen flak jackets on some of them and I think they're probably willing to lay down their lives in the fight. But we're more determined and we're gonna wipe them out."
(What more determined can you be, than fighting for your countries freedom? It is like saying the British were more determined attacking US Colonies....than the colonists themselves... And that is absurd. )
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4013219.stm
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Baghdad - A US officer was charged on Monday with murder and conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the shooting dead of a wounded Iraqi in a Baghdad slum, the US military said.
"Second Lieutenant Erick Anderson of Company C, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, Fort Riley, Kansas, has been charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder," a statement said.
The charges were only allegations and Anderson was presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty, it added.
The military said it was unable to discuss the specific events surrounding the charges but a spokesperson confirmed that they were related to the killing of a wounded Iraqi man in Baghdad's Sadr City district in August.
There has been several murder cases filed against US troops in Iraq, which have added to a furore sparked by the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
Anderson had been put under investigation over whether he granted two soldiers permission to shoot a man whom they thought was so badly injured he would die anyway.
One of the two, Staff Sergeant Cardenas Alban, already appeared for a pre-trial hearing at a Baghdad military court last month. The second, Staff Sergeant Johnny Horne, is due to appear before a judge at a later date.
If convicted they face a minimum of life in prison and a maximum penalty of death. Horne faces the additional charge of solicitation to commit murder.
The alleged incident occurred early on August 18 when US soldiers spotted a garbage truck apparently dropping homemade bombs in Sadr City, the capital's most populous Shiite neighbourhood.
It was unclear if any bombs were subsequently found.
Troops at the time were clashing with militiamen loyal to Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr.
They started shooting at the truck, which caught fire, as more soldiers were sent to the scene. A severely wounded Iraqi man pulled himself out of the truck and was leaning to the side, the prosecution charged during Alban's hearing.
According to previous testimony by Alban, Horne walked over and inspected the man's injuries and afterwards received orders from his commander, Lieutenant Anderson, to do whatever was needed "to put the man out of his misery".
The testimony was read in court by James Suprynowicz, a warrant officer who has been leading the investigation.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1621196,00.html
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How hypocritical of the military. "Sure let's bust some guys to show that we are actually trying to be fair"
* At least six Iraqi troops are killed in the city of Mosul as two police stations are stormed, witnesses say. Seven policemen and more than 30 rebels were killed in clashes with rebels in Mosul on Sunday, Iraqi officials say
* Militants release two female relatives of Iraq's interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, kidnapped last Tuesday with his elderly male cousin, Ghazi. There is no word on him
* A US soldier is charged with "premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder" against an Iraqi.
--------------------------------
Rebels' last stand?
US troops in Falluja, backed by Iraqi soldiers, have pushed the insurgents to the southern edge of Falluja, beyond which the desert and more US troops await them, says our correspondent, who is with the US marines.............
......."I think what you're seeing now are some of the hardliners. They seem to be better equipped than some of the earlier ones... we've seen flak jackets on some of them and I think they're probably willing to lay down their lives in the fight. But we're more determined and we're gonna wipe them out."
(What more determined can you be, than fighting for your countries freedom? It is like saying the British were more determined attacking US Colonies....than the colonists themselves... And that is absurd. )
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4013219.stm
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Baghdad - A US officer was charged on Monday with murder and conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the shooting dead of a wounded Iraqi in a Baghdad slum, the US military said.
"Second Lieutenant Erick Anderson of Company C, 1st Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, Fort Riley, Kansas, has been charged with premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder," a statement said.
The charges were only allegations and Anderson was presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty, it added.
The military said it was unable to discuss the specific events surrounding the charges but a spokesperson confirmed that they were related to the killing of a wounded Iraqi man in Baghdad's Sadr City district in August.
There has been several murder cases filed against US troops in Iraq, which have added to a furore sparked by the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
Anderson had been put under investigation over whether he granted two soldiers permission to shoot a man whom they thought was so badly injured he would die anyway.
One of the two, Staff Sergeant Cardenas Alban, already appeared for a pre-trial hearing at a Baghdad military court last month. The second, Staff Sergeant Johnny Horne, is due to appear before a judge at a later date.
If convicted they face a minimum of life in prison and a maximum penalty of death. Horne faces the additional charge of solicitation to commit murder.
The alleged incident occurred early on August 18 when US soldiers spotted a garbage truck apparently dropping homemade bombs in Sadr City, the capital's most populous Shiite neighbourhood.
It was unclear if any bombs were subsequently found.
Troops at the time were clashing with militiamen loyal to Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr.
They started shooting at the truck, which caught fire, as more soldiers were sent to the scene. A severely wounded Iraqi man pulled himself out of the truck and was leaning to the side, the prosecution charged during Alban's hearing.
According to previous testimony by Alban, Horne walked over and inspected the man's injuries and afterwards received orders from his commander, Lieutenant Anderson, to do whatever was needed "to put the man out of his misery".
The testimony was read in court by James Suprynowicz, a warrant officer who has been leading the investigation.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1621196,00.html
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How hypocritical of the military. "Sure let's bust some guys to show that we are actually trying to be fair"