More US marines charged with murder in Iraq

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Three more U.S. Marines to face trial in Iraq murder

Reuters
October 18, 2006

Another three U.S. Marines will be tried on murder charges in the death of an Iraqi grandfather kidnapped from his house in Hamdania in the middle of the night, the U.S. Marine Corps said on Wednesday.

Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the top Marine general in the Middle East, said Lance Corporal Tyler Jackson, Lance Corporal Robert Pennington and Corporal Trent Thomas would face murder, kidnapping and other charges stemming from the April 2006 death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad.


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Eight US soldiers facing courts-martial

Deutsche Welle
October 18, 2006

The US Army is charging eight US soldiers with courts-martial for two incidents in the Iraqi war. Four troops will stand trial for murdering three Iraqi detainees during a May 9 raid on a suspected insurgent camp near Thar Thar Lake, southwest of Tikrit. Another four are accused of killing a raped girl and her family in the town of Mahmudiya. Two of those defendants could face the death penalty for the March 12 incident that they tried to cover up by making it look like a sectarian attack. In Iraq on Wednesday, the US military said 11 American soldiers were killed, bringing to 69 the number of US troops killed in October so far.


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