US medic jailed over Iraq murder

Two lives gone, two lives wasted, one of the many hundreds of thousand Iraqi Dead, and another locked up for 10 years, for the warped lying thugs in the White House, with their illegal war and occupation of Iraq.

WHO ARE THE CRIMINALS?

A US Navy medic has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in the killing of an Iraqi civilian in April.......

Earlier Bacos told his US court-martial that the marines seized the man in the town of Hamdaniya, threw him into a hole and shot him in the head 10 times. The case is one of several in which US troops are accused of killing Iraqis.

Bacos said he was on patrol with the marine squad who were looking for an insurgent - Saleh Gowad - who had been captured three times but released.

Bacos said the marines were angry the insurgent had been freed and, frustrated at not finding him, instead seized neighbour Hashim Awad from his home....

Bacos said squad leader Sgt Lawrence Hutchins III then fired three shots into Mr Awad's head followed by at least seven more rounds to the head from Cpl Trent Thomas....

Prosecutors say an AK-47 assault rifle, bullets and a shovel were placed next to Mr Awad's body to make it appear as if he were trying to plant a roadside bomb......

Speaking of why he had not chosen to walk away from the incident, Bacos said: "I wanted to be part of the team. I wanted to be loyal.

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US medic gets a year in prison in Iraqi's death

Adam Tanner, Reuters

A U.S. medic who helped kidnap an Iraqi grandfather later killed execution-style by an American squad was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday, but will end up serving a year under a plea deal. Military Judge Col. Steven Folsom gave the sentence after Petty Officer Melson Bacos, 21, said his patrol leader's anger at the release of a suspected "terrorist" from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison prompted the murder of the man's neighbor. Bacos agreed to a plea deal earlier on Friday in which he agreed to testify in exchange for a lesser sentence...

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Marine Alleges Detainee Beatings

CAMP PENDLETON — A sworn statement from a Marine sergeant alleging that guards at the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, regularly beat terrorism detainees — and bragged about it — has been turned over to Pentagon investigators."

I was shocked and outraged to find that beatings are continuous and open," Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, the Marine Corps' defense coordinator for the Western United States, said Friday. Vokey is lawyer for one of the prisoners. He forwarded the two-page statement from the sergeant, a paralegal, to the inspector general's office at the Department of Defense.

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"What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty.

" Gandhi"