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April 1, 2005

Wow

I hardly can believe this.

Iraqi Soldier Convicted of Killing U.S. Contractor Walks Free

Bagdhad (RBN) – An Iraqi army company commander convicted of shooting dead a wounded U.S. contractor walked free from court on Friday, although he was dismissed from the Iraqi army for what he called a "mercy killing."

Iraqi Army Captain Roel Abu Maynulet had faced up to 10 years in jail after a court martial at a Iraqi army base in WisBaden, Iraq, found him guilty of assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter.

The U.S. contractors name was disclosed as Mike Slave working as security counsel for a subcontractor of Halliburton in an oil exploration related contract.

"He was sentenced with dismissal from the Iraqi Army … there will be no confinement time," an Iraqi military spokesman said.

Prosecutors had pressed for conviction on a more serious charge of assault with intent to commit murder, which carries a maximum 20-year jail sentence.

The shooting occurred last May when Iraqi troops were pursuing suspected militiamen supporting Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr near the Iraqi city of Najaf, the court was told.

Iraqi soldiers fired on a car, wounding the driver and a passenger. Abu Maynulet said he then shot dead the driver to put him out of his misery.

"He was in a state I didn’t think was dignified. I had to put him out of his misery," Abu Maynulet said in his defense according to the Iraqi Defense Department.

The jury was shown footage of the shooting filmed by a U.S. surveillance drone.

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Posted by b on April 1, 2005 at 19:57 UTC | Permalink

Comments

It doesn’t surprise me in the least. It does make me angry and sad however.

Posted by: Kate_Storm | Apr 1 2005 20:00 utc | 1

Hope this is the final rbn report

Posted by: slothrop | Apr 1 2005 20:08 utc | 2

b, 😉

Posted by: beq | Apr 1 2005 20:17 utc | 3

b – this must be an April fools’ post – there is no “oil exploration” under way in Iraq currently, it’s too dangerous.
“Mike Slave” is too good a name! Bravo.

Posted by: Jérôme | Apr 1 2005 20:28 utc | 4

Jerome, think Michael Schiavo.

Posted by: beq | Apr 1 2005 20:33 utc | 5

Is this what they mean by “Culture of Life”?

Posted by: kat | Apr 1 2005 21:13 utc | 6

Kissinger undergoes heart procedure cnn
i didn’t know he had one

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Apr 1 2005 21:23 utc | 7

U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserve, U.S. Marines miss recruiting goals again

Posted by: Worried Uncle Sam | Apr 1 2005 21:26 utc | 8

one day, in a just future – which cannot exist for us now – there will be a time when the likes of a kissinger will end up where he belongs – before a war crimes tribunal.
in each american administration since fdr – there is a plethora of criminals & criminality. & it is in this that the americans have excelled. they have invented criminality. who else in the world could have invented ‘junk bonds’. who else in the world could be taken over by phantom who have their names scriibbled on some soiled documents in the cayman islands
they are criminals of an orders that would have made the nazis speer, streicher rauth & the others blush. they have made of governments honey pots where they gorge to their fill as pigs at a trough
& not just on one level but on all. they are not satisified until they have crossed every criminal barrier but it has taken the bush cheney junta to take that criminality to transcedental levels. where before tribunal after tribunal where they should sit as perpetrators – they glide by like some poor impersonation of the great gatsby
but they are so minor in reality – so minor they could only appear minor in a minor novel .
each day – reading the ‘information’ – i dribble on to the clavier astonished by their venality & their capacity to think of themselves as not only clean but pure
& that could not be farther from the truth – they are filthy beyond compare – they make an hoinest man of huey long, they make of meyer lansky a real statesman of vision, they make of bugsy siegel an entrepeneur of substance
they are like so many dutch schultzes – wandering psychopaths pissing & shitting all over your constitution, flag & people.
kissinger & his killer companions have gladly vomited their inanities & called them, policy. ollie north – this perfect piece of shit with the grin of a god gone quite quite mad make khomeini seem an angel in comparison
in bin laden they have met their theatrical double for he is as crazed & filthy as them
the thoughts that fill their heads would outflank any ponographer from missouri who gives money to the ayran nation. they would make of pornographers men of faith & have successfully turned men of faith into pornographers
in my darkest dreams i see the very reverend dr roberrt schuller phd emeritus & his hour of power leading me through the books of ezeikel or through the pages of job. some cabbalic concatenation carrying me through to some catastrophe or another that will last 10 minutes on 60 minutes & will be replayed ad infinitum until the second third or fourth coming if he comes at all
some just day these thugs & their allies will hang me(a)taphorically from the butcherhooks & pianowire of history

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Apr 1 2005 22:11 utc | 9

is ted nugent the love child of ayn rand & henry kissinger?

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Apr 2 2005 0:31 utc | 10

Ted Nugent is a bone head, as my dear old dad would say …

Posted by: Kate_Storm | Apr 2 2005 5:24 utc | 11

Ancient minaret damaged in Iraq

Posted by: b | Apr 2 2005 10:29 utc | 12

Not really surprising; they only consider American life of value, the rest of us are not quite real to these people. Thus, killing us, whether few or many, is not a crime, at best regrettable. Get braced for worse to come.

Posted by: Syntax | Apr 2 2005 12:20 utc | 13

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