US Military Braces For Series Of High-Profile Criminal Cases From Iraq...

I would not hold my breath that they do a day, if found guilty it proves to me, that the White House is just as guilty and should be charged with the same war crimes.

New York Times ROBERT F. WORTH July 9, 2006 at 10:25 AM
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No American serviceman has been executed since 1961. But in the past month, new cases in Iraq have led to charges against 12 American servicemen who may face the death penalty in connection with the killing of Iraqi civilians.

Military officials caution against seeing the cases as part of any broader pattern, noting that the incidents in question are isolated and rare. But the new charges represent an extraordinary flurry in a conflict that has had relatively few serious criminal cases so far.

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