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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-19-07 10:15 AM
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U.S. officer in Iraq gets 2-year jail sentence
Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, Oct 19 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. army officer in Iraq was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday after a court martial found him guilty of illegally possessing thousands of secret military documents.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Steele, 52, was acquitted earlier on Friday on the more serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carried a sentence of life imprisonment, for allowing security detainees to use his mobile telephone for unmonitored calls.






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