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The Associated Press05/22/05 - - EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A military policeman has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.
In a plea bargain, Army prosecutors agreed not to pursue a charge of maltreatment against Spc. Brian E. Cammack. Cammack also agreed to testify in other cases related to the deaths of two inmates at the Bagram Control Point.
Cammack was sentenced Friday during a court-martial at Fort Bliss. He will be demoted to private, fined more than $3,200 and given a bad-conduct discharge.
"I have come to realize what I did was wrong," Cammack said.
Cammack, a member of the Army Reserve's 377th Military Police Company in Cincinnati, said he was angry when he struck the prisoner, Mullah Habibullah, twice in the thigh with his knee. The prisoner had allegedly spit on his chest.
The technique isn't supposed to be used unless a guard's life is in danger, but soldiers have testified it was used regularly with the knowledge of officers. Cammack told the judge that he didn't feel threatened by the prisoner.
Habibullah died of a pulmonary embolism apparently caused by blood clots formed in his legs from the beatings, according to a 2004 military report.
Prosecutors argued that Cammack should be given the maximum penalty of six months in prison. They declined comment after the court-martial.
"Spc. Cammack made a mistake. He has been punished, and now he is moving on with the rest of his life," said Capt. Robert Leone, the defense attorney.
Cammack testified earlier this year in a hearing for Pfc. Willie V. Brand, who is scheduled to face court-martial on charges of assault, maiming, maltreatment and making a false statement.
Brand is accused of assaulting Habibullah and the other prisoner who died, a man identified only as Dilawar.
This month, the Army charged three more soldiers with assault at the detention center where the two prisoners died.
AP-ES-05-22-05 1245EDT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8922.htm
NOW THAT SOUNDS RIGHT DOESNT IT
THREE MONTHS FOR A LIFE IN BUSHES AMERICA
The Associated Press05/22/05 - - EL PASO, Texas (AP) - A military policeman has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.
In a plea bargain, Army prosecutors agreed not to pursue a charge of maltreatment against Spc. Brian E. Cammack. Cammack also agreed to testify in other cases related to the deaths of two inmates at the Bagram Control Point.
Cammack was sentenced Friday during a court-martial at Fort Bliss. He will be demoted to private, fined more than $3,200 and given a bad-conduct discharge.
"I have come to realize what I did was wrong," Cammack said.
Cammack, a member of the Army Reserve's 377th Military Police Company in Cincinnati, said he was angry when he struck the prisoner, Mullah Habibullah, twice in the thigh with his knee. The prisoner had allegedly spit on his chest.
The technique isn't supposed to be used unless a guard's life is in danger, but soldiers have testified it was used regularly with the knowledge of officers. Cammack told the judge that he didn't feel threatened by the prisoner.
Habibullah died of a pulmonary embolism apparently caused by blood clots formed in his legs from the beatings, according to a 2004 military report.
Prosecutors argued that Cammack should be given the maximum penalty of six months in prison. They declined comment after the court-martial.
"Spc. Cammack made a mistake. He has been punished, and now he is moving on with the rest of his life," said Capt. Robert Leone, the defense attorney.
Cammack testified earlier this year in a hearing for Pfc. Willie V. Brand, who is scheduled to face court-martial on charges of assault, maiming, maltreatment and making a false statement.
Brand is accused of assaulting Habibullah and the other prisoner who died, a man identified only as Dilawar.
This month, the Army charged three more soldiers with assault at the detention center where the two prisoners died.
AP-ES-05-22-05 1245EDT
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8922.htm
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