Ex-GI gets life for murdering Iraqi girl

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Ex-GI gets life for murdering Iraqi girl

Fri, 22 May 2009 02:11:38 GMT

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=95568&sectionid=3510203

A Kentucky jury has given life imprisonment to a former US soldier for the gang rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the slaughter of her family.

However, the jury spared him from the death sentence.

After 10 hours of deliberation on Wednesday and Thursday, the nine women and three men on the jury returned without a unanimous verdict for an execution.

Their failure to agree effectively handed Steven Dale Green life in prison without the possibility of parole for the rape and killing of 14-year old Abeer al-Janabi and the murder of her mother, father and six-year-old sister.

Green, named as the ringleader in the March 2006 atrocity, was tried in a civilian court after being discharged from the army due to a "personality disorder" before his role in the crime came to light.

Three other soldiers were given life sentences for the attack, which they plotted over whiskey and a game of cards at a traffic check point in Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad.

[Tabiti]

Iraqi or European, the solder still deserves his sentence.

[Æmeric]

Green, named as the ringleader in the March 2006 atrocity, was tried in a civilian court after being discharged from the army due to a "personality disorder" before his role in the crime came to light.


This doesn't sound right. Green had a personality disorder but was the ringleader :confused:. I have doubts over this. The main evidence against Green was his co-conspirators who pleaded guilty in military court. They had plea agreements to testify against Green in return for reduce sentences & will be eligible for parole in spite of their 'life sentences'. Green was designated the ringleader because he was not around when the allegations aginst the soldiers were first made. It's possible that the men convicted were responsible but I doubt it happened the way the Army said it did, otherwise the Army has some very serious problems with disipline. A group of soldiers just decided to commit this crime over whiskey & a game of cards?:rolleyes2: I think there is a real possibilty that the soldiers were railroaded to cover up a crime committed by local allies of the US back regime. Btw, it took the US Justice Department 2 1/2 years to get this case to trial.

[Tabiti]

More info is needed for the victims' family history. If they were supporters of Saddam's regime, so it is quite possible Æmeric is right. Arabs like to revenge, it is written in Koran.