Three U.S. soldiers killed four handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots on the bank of a Baghdad canal last year, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Sergeant First Class Joseph P. Mayo, the platoon sergeant, and Sergeant Michael P. Leahy Jr., Company D’s senior medic and an acting squad leader, made sworn statements in January to Army investigators in Schweinfurt, Germany probing the incident, the newspaper reported on its website.
The men each described killing one of the Iraqi detainees, as directed by First Sergeant John E. Hatley, according to the statements. Hatley shot two other detainees with a pistol in the back of the head, Mayo and Leahy told investigators, according to the NYT.
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U.S. soldiers cannot harm enemy combatants once they are disarmed and in custody, the NYT said.
A spokesman for the U.S. Army in Europe declined to comment, saying he could not speculate on any future legal action.
David Court, the lawyer in Germany named by the NYT as representing Hatley, was not immediately reachable.
August 28th, 2008 at 4:14 am
Another example of “brave” american troops
August 28th, 2008 at 8:35 am
sickening
August 28th, 2008 at 8:48 am
“Support our Troops” Are these the ones people are refering to?
are we going to see these guys running for president in future years, claiming their heroics in Iraq like John Mccain in Vietnam?
These were brave soldiers, in the face of Terrorism, Why can I hear Bill O reilly saying this?
August 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Bush and Dick need to be in jail for 50 years at least for their crimes
August 28th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
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There’s lots more bloodletting going on than this. By…guess who???
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August 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
You tax money at work. “Stop feeding the elephant”. You guys are responsible for your own enslavement…you pay for it…fools!
Doc’s right, these are your future cops…shooting you in the back of the head when you have been blindfolded and handcuffed, they already beat the shit out of people who have been blindfolded…it’s just the next step.
GWB: You are correct too. McCain is a war criminal…bomb kids and call yourself a war hero! Sick bastard. He was the canary of the Hanoi Hilton. His creepy father covered up the USS Liberty attack by our frinds the state of Israel…Israel is no one’s friend…a nation of people wanting hand outs. God’s children…I’d spit in the face of that god.
Nescio….”brave” indeed. These bastards are coming to your town when they finish their jobs in Iraq.