Army continues Iraq murder conspiracy hearing

[unhappycamper]

Army continues Iraq murder conspiracy hearing
By George Frey - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Aug 27, 2008 22:09:57 EDT

VILSECK, Germany — A military panel took evidence Wednesday in a hearing aimed at determining whether two soldiers should face a court-martial in the deaths of four Iraqi men last year.

Authorities say the men were blindfolded, shot in the head and dumped in a Baghdad canal in April 2007 in alleged retribution for casualties within the 172nd Infantry Brigade.

Defense lawyers representing Staff Sgt. Jess Cunningham and Sgt. Charles Quigley insisted that their clients didn’t participate in the killings and had little or no knowledge of them.

Instead, they argued that three other soldiers in the same brigade — 1st Sgt. John Hatley, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo and Sgt. Michael Leahy — were responsible. The three face charges and trial at a later date.

In witness testimony Tuesday and Wednesday, soldiers who were on the patrol said the four Iraqis, probably Sunnis, were taken into custody following a shootout with insurgents, and brought to the brigade’s Baghdad base.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_army_hearing_082708w/%2e

[zbdent]

1. At least, when he was a (let's all say it together) "P.O.W.", John McCain

supported the Geneva Conventions ... and was against torture ...

edited to add:

I also remember the big hoopla which went on over the original Iraq war ... three pilots were shot down, and their faces were broadcast over Iraqi TV ... Bush41 decried this as against the "Geneva Conventions" - showing prisoners' faces, and also pointing out their "torture" ...

It was later found out that the "injuries from torture" seen in the video were actually from them ejecting ... and that the Iraqis treated their wounds and returned the POWs safely ...

Then, also, was Jessica Lynch ... who they tried to paint as having been raped and tortured while unconscious ... and had actually been offered to the troops, but they wanted to stage a videotaped "dramatic rescue", invading an unarmed hospital ...