Prosecutor Calls Accused G.I.'s War Criminals

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Published: August 5, 2006

TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug. 4 — A military prosecutor called four American infantrymen “war criminals” on Friday for killing three Iraqi men in a raid in May after handcuffing them, “cutting them loose, telling them to run and shooting them.”

But a lawyer for one of the accused soldiers said the three Iraqi men “got exactly what they deserved” and urged a military investigator to recommend that murder charges filed against the four be dismissed.

The lawyers’ statements were part of summations given at the conclusion of a military hearing to weigh the evidence against the soldiers, all members of Company C, Third Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.

The lieutenant colonel presiding over the hearing, held during the past four days in a makeshift room at an American military base here, must determine whether to recommend that the charges proceed to a court-martial. The recommendations, made to an Army major general who will decide how to proceed, may take several days or weeks.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/05/world/middleeast/05tikrit.html

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