Friday, April 17, 2009

YES, WE DID MURDER IRAQIS

(h/t Attaturk and John Cole)

You may recall that Cpl. Lopezromo said the Marines considered all Iraqi men part of the insurgency and thus fair game. Well, that attitude really was widespread.

NCO gets life for slaying Iraqi detainees
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, April 17, 2009

VILSECK, Germany — "I ain’t no angel," admitted a 172nd Infantry Brigade noncommissioned officer shortly before a military jury sentenced him Thursday to life in prison with the possibility of parole for the execution-style murders of four Iraqi detainees in 2007.

Master Sgt. John Hatley, 40, also was reduced to the rank of private and dishonorably discharged less than six months short of 20 years of service.

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