Ex-soldier convicted of killing Iraqi family dies

[jsr]

Source: Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A former soldier sentenced to life for raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and using a shotgun to gun down her family died in an Arizona prison over the weekend in what officials suspect was a suicide.

Steven Dale Green was the first American soldier charged and convicted under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act - a law signed in 2000 that gives the federal government jurisdiction to pursue criminal cases against American citizens and soldiers for acts committed in foreign lands.

The federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman John Stahley said staff members at the federal penitentiary in Tucson, Ariz., found the 28-year-old Green, of Midland, Texas, unresponsive in his cell on Saturday. Stahley said Green's death is being investigated as a suicide.

Green and three other soldiers went to the home of an Iraqi family in Mahmoudiya, Iraq, near a traffic checkpoint in March 2006. At the home, Green shot and killed three members of the al-Janabi family before becoming the third soldier to rape 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi before killing her. He was convicted and sentenced in 2009.




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Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi at the age of seven

[WhiteTara]

1. I remember him. Suicide?

What a nasty piece of work all the way around. Forced to face responsibility, he weaseled out.

[rdharma]

2. Justice served........ FINALLY! nt

[ck4829]

3. He must have finally realized what a waste of space he was.

[dawn frenzy adams]

4. No justice here at all.

I feel for the family he and his soldiers so savagely murdered. But Green was a victim of a horrible lie told by the George W Bush Administration. The innocent Iraqis and the duped soldier's lives have been decimated. This while Bush, Cheney Pearl, Wofowitz, Kagan, etc., etc., sleep peacefully in their mansions and villas. If the average American knew that we are not the good guys, and never have been, they would never sleep another night in their lives. I don't think most Americans are sociopaths, just seriously misinformed by a corrupt 4th estate and corrupt leaders. In the end, we all will pay. As Nina Simone said in the song Mississippi Goddamn, "Oh but this whole country is full of lies . You're all gonna die and die like flies."

[rdharma]

5. Green was a "victim"?

You mean like all those "poor Nazis" who committed war atrocities?

Green an innocent victim of propaganda and lies? ..........Please, give me a break!

[rhett o rick]

6. I understand what you are saying. He is not innocent and he is responsible for what

he did. But sadly, those that sent him there and encouraged him to kill, walk free today.

[rdharma]

9. Oh, how I would love to see them punished for that!

Probably won't happen.

I will not vote for any politician who voted for the war in Iraq.

[rhett o rick]

10. I am with you there on both counts. nm

[LeftyMom]

7. He RAPED A CHILD while covered in the blood of her dead family.

When he was done raping her he shot her. In the face.

Then, to cover up the crime, he lit her body on fire.

Yes, the war was a lie and it damaged many people beyond repair, but to do something like that he had to have been a sick, sick fuck before he ever left Texas.

[alp227]

8. More details in these sources

LA Times: Soldier convicted in rape and murder of 14-year-old Iraqi girl is found hanged in prison

Al Jazeera: Former US soldier guilty of rape found hanged

[bluestateguy]

11. I'm glad my tax dollars are no longer paying for his free health care

and three meals a day.

Throw his body in the prison dumpster.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

12. Dead. That seems like a pretty good disposition for this guy.

As someone said above, throw him in the dumpster.

[geek tragedy]

13. His suicide's about 8 years too late to do anyone any good.

Anyhow, good riddance to a particularly foul piece of rubbish. Dump his body next to bin Laden's.

[U4ikLefty]

15. The other three are eligible for parole in 2015.