Soldier Tells Of Shooting Unarmed Iraqi

[Nomad559]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

A U.S. soldier cried Thursday as he told a court-martial that his staff sergeant ordered him to shoot an unarmed Iraqi. He said the sergeant then laughed and told the trooper to finish the job as the dying man convulsed on the ground.

The military reported, meanwhile, that it had opened an investigation into the deaths of five women and four children this week in a village where American forces had carried out ground and air assaults.

Both incidents took place in a region south of the capital known as the triangle of death, a Sunni-dominated area that has seen some of the war's heaviest fighting and most gruesome deaths.

Prosecutors claim the first case involved the killing of an Iraqi man with a 9mm pistol, placing an AK-47 rifle by his body to make it seem as though he was armed, and failing to ensure humane treatment of a detainee — the victim.

[sam sarrha]

1. double tap; if they are good enough to shoot once shoot em twice, finish off the wounded.i have.

heard it is common