AP: GI Guilty in Iraqi Detainees' Deaths

[Eugene]

GI Guilty in Iraqi Detainees' Deaths


Saturday March 17, 2007 6:16 AM

By KRISTIN M. HALL

Associated Press Writer

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A military panel found a 101st Airborne
soldier guilty of three counts of negligent homicide but not guilty
of premeditated murder in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees.

Staff Sgt. Ray Girouard, 24, smiled as he hugged his defense lawyer
and family members after the verdict was read. He faced up to life
in prison had he been found guilty of premeditated murder.

The panel, which deliberated for four hours, also found Girouard
guilty of obstruction of justice for lying to investigators, of
conspiracy for trying to conceal the crime and of failure to obey
a general order.

-snip-

Girouard was accused of telling his soldiers to release detainees
they captured during the May 9 raid near Samarra, Iraq, and then
shoot them as they fled. He is the last and most senior soldier
from the 101st Airborne Division to face trial in the killings.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6487634,00.html

[sam sarrha]

1. is the 'neglegence' part that he neglected to shoot them himself.??

:mad: or that he got caught..??

[saigon68]

2. Another murdering thug walks free

No doubt this story will have a prominent place in the ME Islamic Press

ENTITLED UNDER "Winning Hearts and Minds" one corpse at a time.

[sanskritwarrior]

4. He was judged by a military jury

He was found guilty of some things, not guilty of others.......He faces 21 years, hardly "walking free".

I've been to Iraq, I've done similar things, fortunately I stayed inside our ROE, he did not and now he will pay. What's your problem with that? And saigon, I'm very familiar with your posts, let's keep it to the micro level of the individual instead of the macro level of the whole war.

[kaal]

3. Send him to Abu Gharaib

Let the Iraqis keep him locked for life...

[MasonJar]

5. Of course we do not have access to the whole story, but I do not

trust anyone in government under Bush. If he did in fact order his soldiers to let prisoners escape and then to shoot them as they left/ran/whatever, then that sounds like premeditated murder to me.