Slayings dashed dreams of rural Iraqi family

[MetaTrope]

Source: Associated Press

The beautiful, dark-haired girl in the photograph stands near a wall in pre-invasion Iraq. What is unseen and now lost, her family says, is her dream of moving to the big city and getting married.

"Abeer was a strong woman," said her aunt, Ameena Hamza Rashid al-Janabi. "She was very proud to be young."

Relatives of the girl, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, and prosecutors detailed the teen’s hopes and life during the civilian trial of former Pfc. Steven Dale Green, 24, in western Kentucky. They showed pictures of the family at home, and relatives recounted their aspirations for a better life.

Green, of Midland, Texas, was convicted of multiple counts, including conspiracy and murder in the March 2006 killings of 14-year-old Abeer and her father, mother and 6-year-old sister near Mahmoudiya, Iraq, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. But jurors couldn’t reach a decision Thursday on an appropriate punishment for Green, resulting in the ex-soldier receiving a life sentence rather than the death penalty.

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[UndertheOcean]

1. The death sentence is wrong , but I don't care in this case .....hang the bastard

That's showing him more mercy than he deserves

[Hulk]

2. Send his sick ass over to Iraq...and let THEM deal justice to the disgraceful pig!

Instead, WE...the whole country bear the shame of this disgusting thug. Hard to have pride in your military when they let this monster get away with this action.

I'm ashamed!

[Hulk]

3. duplicate....deleted

[Downwinder]

4. Keep him alive, let him think about it for the rest of his life.

Might even post the picture on his wall. The high point of his miserable life.

[atreides1]

5. Do you really believe he cares?

The only thing that he'll think about is that he got caught, the rape, the murders, he has no remorse, to him the lives that he took were little more then slapping a fly.

So if you really believe that killing and raping a 14 year old girl is going to bother Greene, I think you're sadly mistaken.