Sunday, January 23, 2005

Do we "vet" our own soldiers?

Two US soldiers have been given jail terms, reductions in rank and bad conduct discharges for their role in the killing of a female civilian interpreter in Iraq.

In a statement, the military said Specialist Charley Hooser of the 1st Cavalry Division was sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of making a false statement.

"The convictions stem from an incident on November 24, when Hooser killed an interpreter, shooting her in the head," the military said late on Saturday.

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On the day of the incident, Dajani and 28-year-old Luma, whose full name was not disclosed, were in a room at an American base, joking about killing someone, the soldiers testified at the court martial hearing.

Dajani handed a handgun to Hooser, who thought it had been cleared and pulled the trigger as he held it to the young woman's head. The two GIs then lied to investigators, claiming that Luma had shot herself.
  English article

The interpreter was working with the U.S. military!

Somebody else is giving these idiot kids the guns to begin with.

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