Iraqi-Canadian contractor goes on trial in Iraq in stabbing case

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Source: Canadian Press

BAGHDAD — A U.S. army translator holding joint Iraqi-Canadian citizenship goes on trial before a U.S. military court Sunday for allegedly stabbing a fellow contractor.

Alaa "Alex" Mohammad Ali has been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly stabbing another contractor four times during a fight Feb. 23 on a base near Hit, 140 kilometres west of Baghdad.

The court martial, the first such military prosecution since the Vietnam War, will take place at Camp Victory, headquarters of U.S. forces in Iraq.

It will be the first trial under a 2006 amendment to the Uniformed Code of Military Justice which enables civilian employees in a combat zone to be tried for offences before a military court ...

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