Friday - April 29, 2005

Firing Squad

The US soldier who murdered several of his fellow troops in a grenade attack during the Iraq invasion finally got his judgement yesterday. The death penalty, that is. It’s about time. Notice the bulletproof vest under that uniform below? As far as I’m concerned, the best justice would be to send this creep back to his platoon. He wouldn’t last five minutes ....

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Hours after giving a brief, barely audible apology, a soldier was sentenced to death by a military jury for attacking comrades with a rifle and grenades early in the Iraq invasion.

Sgt. Hasan Akbar, 34, could have been sentenced Thursday to life in prison with or without parole for the March 2003 attack on members of the elite 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait. Two officers were killed and 14 other soldiers were wounded.

Prosecutors say Akbar launched the attack at his camp — days before the soldiers were to move into Iraq — because he was concerned about U.S. troops killing fellow Muslims in the Iraq war.

“He is a hate-filled, ideologically driven murderer,” chief prosecutor Lt. Col. Michael Mulligan said. He added that Akbar wrote in his diary in 1997, “My life will not be complete unless America is destroyed.”

Akbar is the first American since the Vietnam era to be prosecuted on charges of murdering a fellow soldier during wartime.

Akbar will be the sixth person on the military’s death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The last U.S. military execution was in 1961.

For my money, killing’s too good for this weasel. A public beheading is in order here. Where’s my sword ....?

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/29/2005 at 06:15 AM   
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