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Marines to Face Charges in Iraqi's Death
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| Last Edited | RP Jun 02, 2006 01:22pm |
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| News Date | Friday, June 2, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman could face murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges as early as Friday in the shooting death of an Iraqi man, a defense attorney said.
Military prosecutors plan to file the charges against the men, who are being held in solitary confinement at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base north of here, Jeremiah Sullivan III, who represents one of the men, said Thursday.
The Iraqi man reportedly was dragged from his home west of Baghdad and shot in April.
The Los Angeles Times and NBC News said troops may have planted an AK-47 and shovel near the body to make it appear the man was an insurgent burying a roadside bomb. Neither suggested a possible motive for the April 26 killing in Hamandiya.
The death was unrelated to the November shootings of as many as two dozen civilians in the western Iraqi city of Haditha. The Pentagon is investigating troops from a different Marine regiment in that case. |
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